Specialist Register
The Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration was a route to entry onto the Specialist Register for those doctors who have not followed an approved training programme. It was previously known as article 14. It has been replaced by Portfolio Pathway.
The Specialist Register is a list of doctors who are legally entitled to take up honorary, substantive or fixed term consultant posts in the NHS and is maintained by the General Medical Council (GMC).
Hospital doctors are included onto the Specialist Register after they have been awarded either a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or followed Portfolio process.
Doctors who wish to join the specialist register who have not followed a full approved GMC training programme but who may have gained the same level of skills and knowledge as CCT holders, can apply via POrtfolio process.
If your application is successful, you will be entered onto the Specialist Register.You can then apply for Consultat contract posts.
Not all SAS want to move into consultant posts - think carefully if this is the route for you.
Information about Portfolio process to follow.