A-Z of ethical guidance

Caldicott Guardian

(0-18 years 60)

(Confidentiality: reporting gunshot and knife wounds 14)

(Confidentiality 3)

(Confidentiality 44e, 47)

capacity

(Confidentiality, endnotes 25, 26)

assessing
(Consent 71-74)

children's and young people's
(Consent 54-56)

(0-18 years 24-29)

decision-making when men lack capacity
(Consent 6)

(Consent 75-76)

disclosure when patient lacks capacity to consent
(Confidentiality 38a)

(Confidentiality 57-63)

disclosures when child lacks
(0-18 years 51)

legal framework
(0-18 years 28)

legal framework relating to

(Consent 62-63) 

(Consent, legal annex)

loss of capacity during a research project
(Consent to research 31-32)

maximising patients'
(Consent 66-70)

presumption of
(Consent 64-65)

research involving adults without
(Consent to research 23-35)

resolving disagreements when patients lack
(Consent 77-78)

where children and young people have
(0-18 years 29)

(0-18 years 27-28)

cardiopulmonary rescuscitation (CPR)

(Consent 58d)

care homes

(see institutions providing care or treatment)

Care Quality Commission

(Confidentiality, legal annex 4)

care

access to medical care
(Good Medical Practice 7-10)

arrangement of cover
(Good Medical Practice 48)

of those you are close to
(Good Medical Practice 5)

provision of good quality
(Good Medical Practice 2-3)

supporting self-care

• (Good Medical Practice 4)
  
• (Good Medical Practice 21e)

carers

(Good Medical Practice 29)

(Consent 22)

(Consent 58c)

(Consent 68b)

(Consent 73a)

sharing information with
(Confidentiality 62)

(Confidentiality 64-66)

case studies

publishing and confidentiality
(Confidentiality: education and training 4-7)

cautions (criminal)

(Good Medical Practice 58)

(Reporting Convictions)

chaperones

(Maintaining Boundaries 10-13)

role of
(Maintaining Boundaries 11)

child abuse

(0-18 years 56-62)

child protection

doctors role in
(0-18 years 56)

children

(Good Medical Practice 24-28)

(Good Medical Practice 36)

(Consent 54-56)

information to parents on death of
(Confidentiality 71f)

children and young people

access to medical care
(0-18 years 15)

access to medical records
(0-18 years 53-55)

audit of care
(0-18 years 73)

best interests
(0-18 years 12-13)

(0-18 years 28)

(0-18 years 31-33)

(0-18 years 34-35)

child protection
(0-18 years 56-63)

communication
(0-18 years 14-21)

complaints by
(0-18 years 76)

confidentiality
(0-18 years 42-43)

conscientious objections
(0-18 years 72)

contraception, abortion and STIs
(0-18 years 70-72)

definition
(0-18 years Appendix 1)

donation, transplantation, organ and tissue storage and use
(0-18 years 41)

legislation and case law
(0-18 years Legislation and case law)

making decisions
(0-18 years 22-41)

off label prescribing
(Prescribing 19-20)

other sources of information and guidance
(0-18 years Other sources of information and guidance)

parents and parental responsibility definition
(0-18 years Appendix 2)

prescribing
(Prescribing 24)

prescribing medicines for
(0-18 years 77)

recruitment to work with
(0-18 years 74)

reporting gunshot and knife wounds involving
(Confidentiality: reporting gunshot and knife wounds 19-22)

research
(0-18 years 36-40)

research involving
(Consent to research 14-20)

serious communicable diseases
(Confidentiality: serious communicable diseases 12-16)

sexual activity
(0-18 years 64-69)

sharing information with
(0-18 years 17-19)

suitability to work with
(0-18 years 73-75)

views of
(0-18 years 16)

where a young person refuses treatment
(0-18 years 30-33)

circumcision of male children

conscientious objection to
(Personal Beliefs and Medical Practice 15)

consent for the
(Personal Beliefs and Medical Practice 14)

good practice in the
(Personal Beliefs and Medical Practice 16)

(0-18 years 34-35)

clinical audit

(Confidentiality 7)

(Confidentiality 30-32)

clinical care, characteristics of good care

(Good Medical Practice 2a-c)

clinical governance

raising concerns
(Raising concerns 21)

clinical trials of medicines

(Good practice in research 1-4)

(Good practice in research 16)

(Consent to research 11)

(Consent to research 14-20)

(Consent to research 23-35)

(Consent to research 36-39)

(Research Annex A)

(Research Annex B)

coded information

see anonymised or coded information

codes of practice, keeping up to date with

(Good Medical Practice 13)

coercion

• (Good Medical Practice 62)

• (Good Medical Practice 72d)

colleagues

appraisal of
(Good Medical Practice 18)

challenging colleagues whose behaviour does not comply with guidance
(Good Medical Practice 46)

conduct and performance of
(Good Medical Practice 43)

definition of colleagues
(Good Medical Practice 1)

health problems
(Leadership and management 70-72)

information sharing with
(Good Medical Practice 22d)

(Good Medical Practice 50-53)

respect for
(Leadership and management 6-9)

role in assessing capacity
(Consent 73)

role in resolving disagreements
(Consent 77)

support of colleagues with problems
(Good Medical Practice 41e)

working in teams
(Good Medical Practice 41-42)

working with
(Good Medical Practice 41-55)

college students

work experience and confidentiality
(Confidentiality: education and training 12) 

commercial interests

(Good Medical Practice 73a)

(Conflicts of Interest 1-18)

in pharmacies
(Prescribing 10-12)

commissioning

(Leadership and management 79b)

(Leadership and management 82)

Common law

(Consent, legal annex)

common law of confidentiality

(Confidentiality 9e)

communicable diseases

(Good Medical Practice 78)

disclosing information about
(Confidentiality: serious communicable diseases 1-20)

(Confidentiality 4d)

(Confidentiality 36)

communicating

changes to the investigation or treatment plan

(Consent 37-38)

risks, side effects and complications

(Consent 28-36)

with patients who have capacity

• (Consent 7-11)
  
• (Consent 12)
  
• (Consent 13-17)
  
• (Consent 18-21)
  
• (Consent 22)

with patients whose capacity is in question

• (Consent 64-65)
  
• (Consent 66-70)

communication

as a manager
(Leadership and management 14)

barriers to effective
(Personal Beliefs and Medical Practice 28)

during handover
(Leadership and management 12)

effective
(Good Medical Practice 22a-d)

importance in doctor-patient relationship
(Good Medical Practice 20)

meeting needs of patient
(Good Medical Practice 23)

research
(Consent to research 7-8)

when things go wrong
(Good Medical Practice 30-31)

with and between teams
(Leadership and management 10-15)

with children and young people
(Good Medical Practice 27a-c)

(0-18 years 14-21)

within teams
(Good Medical Practice 41b)

competence

as teacher
(Good Medical Practice 16)

(Leadership and management 64)

complaints, from patients
(Good Medical Practice 31)

conduct
(Good Medical Practice 57)

confidential enquiries
(Good Medical Practice 14g)

continuing education
(Good Medical Practice 12)

limits of
(Good Medical Practice 67)

of good doctors
(Good Medical Practice 1)

recognition of limits
(Good Medical Practice 3a)

see capacity

working within
(Leadership and management 60)

complaints

by children and young people
(0-18 years 76)

from employers
(Appointments)

complications

(see risks)

computer systems

(Confidentiality 13, 14)

Conferences

sponsorship of
(Conflicts of Interest 17-18)

confidentiality

(see Confidentiality)

(Good Medical Practice 37)

(Consent 18c)

(Consent, endnote 6)

Confidentiality and Disclosure of Information Directions and Code of Practice
(Confidentiality: financial and administrative purposes 7)

children and young people
(0-18 years 42-43)

(0-18 years 71)

disclosing information about serious communicable diseases
(Confidentiality: serious communicable diseases 1-20)

disclosing information for insurance, employment and similar purposes
(Confidentiality: insurance, employment and similar 1-8) 

(Confidentiality 34)

disclosing records for financial and administrative purposes
(Confidentiality: financial and administrative purposes 1-7)

duty towards children and young people
(0-18 years 21)

formal inquiry
(Good Medical Practice 68)

patient privacy and right to
(Good Medical Practice 21d)

relatives, carers and partners
(Good Medical Practice 29)

reporting concerns about patients to the DVLA or the DVA
(Confidentiality: reporting concerns to the DVLA 1-8)

reporting gunshot and knife wounds
(Confidentiality: reporting gunshot and knife wounds 1-22)

research
(Good practice in research 31-32)

responding to criticism in the press
(Confidentiality: responding to criticism in the press 1-6)

sexual activity of children and young people
(0-18 years 64-69)

Confidentiality: NHS Code of Practice endnote
(Confidentiality, endnote 23)

conflicts of interest

(Good Medical Practice 74-76)

(Leadership and management 89-92)

conflicts of interest
(Conflicts of Interest 1-18)

expert witness
(Expert witnesses 19)

pharmaceutical industry
(Conflicts of Interest 12-13)

recommending services outside healthcare
(Conflicts of Interest 14-16)

research
(Good practice in research 26-27)

sharing information with patients’ GPs
(Conflicts of Interest 9)

sponsorship of conferences and meetings
(Conflicts of Interest 17-18)

target payments
(Conflicts of Interest 10-11)

conscientious objection

doctors’ rights and responsibilities
(Personal Beliefs and Medical Practice 21-25)

termination of pregnancy
(Personal Beliefs and Medical Practice 21-25)

to the circumcision of male children
(Personal Beliefs and Medical Practice 15)

(0-18 years 72)

consent

consent
(Good Medical Practice 36)

(Good Medical Practice 72a)

accepting
(Consent 44)

capacity of children and young people to
(0-18 years 24-29)

children and young people
(0-18 years 22-41)

disclosure of confidential information with
(Confidentiality 24-35)

disclosure of confidential information without
(Confidentiality 36-56)

express, for disclosure of confidential information
(Confidentiality 33-35)

(Confidentiality Glossary)

implied
(Consent 45-46)

implied, for disclosure of confidential information
(Confidentiality 25-35)

(Confidentiality Glossary)

involvement of children and young people in research
(Consent to research 14-20)

oral
(Consent 45-46)

(Consent 50)

parental
(0-18 years 22-33)

parental consent to research
(0-18 years 38-39)

recording
(Consent 50)

(Consent 51)

(Consent to research 11)

responsibility for seeking
(Consent 26-27)

responsibility for seeking consent to research
(Consent to research 9-10)

scope of
(Consent 37-39)

seeking, for disclosure of confidential information
(Confidentiality 38)

(Confidentiality 43)

to emergency research
(Consent to research 19-20)

to intimate examinations
(Maintaining Boundaries 14-19)

to research
(Consent to research)

to research involving adults without capacity
(Consent to research 27-29) 

written
(Consent 47-50)

written consent to research
(Consent to research 11)

continuing education

• (Good Medical Practice 12-13)

• (Good Medical Practice 14)

contractual notice period

(Good Medical Practice 49)

(Appointments)

controlled drugs

prescribing
(Prescribing 13-16)

convictions, reporting

(Good Medical Practice 58)

(Reporting Convictions)

coroner

(Good Medical Practice 69)

(Confidentiality 71a)

court-appointed deputy

• (Consent 62)

• (Consent, endnote 12)

courts

disclosure of confidential information to
(Confidentiality 21-23)

(Confidentiality, legal annex 11)

role of in assessing best interests of children and young people
(0-18 years 32)

cover, arrangement of

(Good Medical Practice 48)

cremation certificates

completion of
(Personal Beliefs and Medical Practice 29)

crime

definition
(Confidentiality, endnote 23)

disclosure in public interest for
(Confidentiality 54)

if seeking consent would undermine purpose of disclosure
(Confidentiality 38c)

reporting gunshot and knife wounds
(Confidentiality: reporting gunshot and knife wounds 1-22)

reporting of gunshot and knife wounds
(Confidentiality 4c)

criminal offence

(Reporting Convictions)

criminal offences, informing the GMC of

(Good Medical Practice 58)

criticism of colleagues

(Good Medical Practice 47)

criticism

responding to press
(Confidentiality: responding to criticism in the press 1-6)