Good medical practice: Explanatory guidance

Our explanatory guidance provides detail on the principles in Good medical practice (GMP). All doctors must be familiar with and follow the guidance. Click on the publication picture to download a pdf version of the guidance or the title browse the web version.

You can also download the publication, What to expect from your doctor: a guide for patients (2013) which we have developed to help patients understand the standards expected of all doctors. Please note that this is not guidance for doctors.  

Printed Publication	Explanatory guidance
	Confidentiality (2009)
	Consent: patients and doctors making decisions together (2008)
	Treatment and care towards the end of life (2010)
	Leadership and management for all doctors (2012)
	Raising and acting on concerns about patient safety (2012)
	Protecting children and young people: the responsibilities of all doctors (2012)
	0-18 years: guidance for all doctors (2007)
Online only	Explanatory guidance
	Accountability in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency mental health teams (2005)
	Acting as a witness in legal proceedings (2013)
	Confidentiality: disclosing information for education and training purposes (2009)
	Confidentiality: disclosing information for insurance, employment and similar purposes (2009)
	Confidentiality: disclosing records for financial and administrative purposes (2009)
	Confidentiality: disclosing information about serious communicable diseases (2009)
	Confidentiality: reporting concerns about patients to the DVLA or the DVA (2009)
	Confidentiality: reporting gunshot and knife wounds (2009)
	Confidentiality: responding to critcism in the press (2009)
	Consent to research (2010)
	Delegation and referral (2013)
	Doctors' use of social media (2013)
	Ending your professional relationship with a patient (2013)
	Financial and commerical arrangements and conflicts of interest (2013)
	Good practice in prescribing and managing medicines and devices (2013)
	Good practice in research (2010)
	Maintaining boundaries: Intimate examinations and chaperones (2013)
	Maintaining boundaries: Maintaining a professional boundary between you and your patient (2013)
	Maintaining boundaries: Sexual behaviour and your duty to report (2013)
	Making and using visual and audio recordings of patients (2011)
	Personal beliefs and medical practice (2013)
	Reporting criminal and regulatory proceedings within and outside the UK (2013)
	When a patient seeks advice or information about assistance to die (2013)
	Writing references (2012)