Duff, Geoffrey Robert
Below is the registration information for this doctor.
Doctor's details
Name
Duff, Geoffrey Robert
Status
Practising
Qualifications
- MB ChB 1977 Brist
- Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery
- University of Bristol, England
- FRCS Edin 1983
- Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
- Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Scotland
District
Christchurch
Practising certificate
from 1 March 2017 to 28 February 2018
Conditions
None
General scope
15 March 1990
Scope of practice
General
Vocational
- Ophthalmology (11 July 1990)
Dr Duff is required to participate in an approved recertification programme relevant to the vocational scope of Ophthalmology.
Dr Duff may work outside the stated vocational scope but must do so within a collegial relationship.
Definitions of scopes
General
A doctor who has completed the requirements of a provisional general scope will be registered within a general scope of practice.
Examples are doctors who have completed their first post-graduate year and may be in vocational training, doctors who have not started, or have chosen not to do, vocational training or doctors nearing retirement who are no longer meeting the requirements for registration within a vocational scope of practice.
The doctor must establish a professional collegial relationship with another doctor who is registered within the same or related vocational scope, and must participate in appropriate continuing professional development to maintain and improve competence and to be recertified each year.
Vocational
A doctor who has completed his or her vocational training as a consultant and has appropriate qualifications and experience can be registered within a vocational scope of practice.
A doctor registered in a vocational scope must participate in an approved continuing professional development programme to maintain competence and be recertified each year.
Ophthalmology
Ophthalmology is the diagnosis and management of patients with abnormal conditions affecting the eye and its appendages, including prevention of blindness, promotion of eye health and rehabilitation of those with visual disability.