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Oil & Gas UK also hosts an annual Examining Doctors Conference to bring together registered doctors from across the world, providing them with essential updates and networking opportunities. Almost 100 doctors from across four continents attended the 2017 conference. Each year, the registered doctors carry out medical assessments of offshore oil and gas employees around the globe using the Oil & Gas UK Medical Aspects of Fitness for Offshore Work: Guidance for Examining Physicians . 6 The doctors are asked to submit a statistical return, indicating the total number of medicals they have performed and the numbers of cases in which individuals have failed to pass their assessments. The number of medicals performed in 2017 returned to levels seen through 2013-2015.

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Figure 22: Examining Doctors Statistics

Total Number of Medicals Conducted

Number of Medicals Failed

Percentage Medicals Failed

Year

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

56850 59900 93219 113006 118597 111651

784 665

1.38 1.11 1.38 1.18 1.08 1.01 1.14 1.21

1284 1333 1285 1125 1125 1339

99104

110688

6 The Medical Aspects of Fitness for Offshore Work: Guidance for Examining Physicians is available to download at http://bit.ly/medicalguidelines

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