A week of news - shotgun start for peer review

It is encouraging to see practitioners embracing peer review in this week's news - or are these just the keen ones?

The GOC reports that 15 per cent of registrants had already taken part within the first six months of the new cycle.

Admittedly, it is a good start, but the real test will come in the winter months halfway through the current cycle when many would rather tidy the dark room than talk to their fellow colleagues.

With a measly requirment of one peer review point per cycle though, surely even the grupiest will find time for one discussion per three year cycle.