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Jun 02, 1935 Died on 19 Nov 2018 (aged 83)
British medical practitioner
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About Donald Irvine Physician
- Sir Donald Hamilton Irvine (2 June 1935 – 19 November 2018) was a British general practitioner (GP) who was president of the General Medical Council (GMC) between 1995 and 2002, during a time when there were a number of high-profile medical failure cases in the UK, including the Alder Hey organs scandal, the Bristol heart scandal and The Shipman Inquiry.
- He transformed the culture of the GMC by setting out what patients could expect of doctors and is credited with leading significant changes in the regulation of professional medicine and introducing the policy of professional revalidation in the UK. Irvine was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, where his father was a sole practitioner GP.
- After qualifying in medicine and spending some time working with his father, he joined colleagues from two practices to establish a multidisciplinary teaching practice and thereafter followed a career with various committees including as regional adviser in general practice, the Joint Committee on Postgraduate General Practice Training, chair of council of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and later the GMC committee on professional standards and ethics.
- In 1979, he received an OBE, in 1987 a CBE and in 1994 he was Knighted. In 1999 Irvine's GMC presidency was unsuccessfully challenged by obstetrician Wendy Savage, the first time anyone had stood in opposition to an incumbent president.
- Irvine won by 30 votes, the GMC agreed to request revalidation and Irvine decided to step down ten months early. He became internationally known for his work with the Picker Institute and in 2017 was awarded the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) healthcare quality and safety award.
- He also wrote the books, The Doctors' Tale: Professionalism and Public Trust (2003) and the memoir Medical Professionalism and the Public Interest: Reflections on a Life in Medicine (2017).
