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Supplementary guidance
The Review of Good Medical Practice
Good Medical Practice
List of ethical guidance
Protecting children and young people
0-18 years
Accountability in Multi-disciplinary and Multi-Agency Mental Health Teams
Taking up and ending appointments
Making and using visual and audio recordings of patients
Confidentiality
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About this guidance
Principles
Protecting information
Disclosures required by law
Disclosing information with consent
The public interest
Disclosures about patients who lack capacity to consent
Sharing information with a patient's partner, carers, relatives or friends
Genetic and other shared information
Disclosure after a patient's death
Supplementary information
Glossary
Legal annex
Endnotes
Learning materials
Conflicts of interest
Consent guidance
End of life care
Maintaining boundaries
Research guidance
Leadership and management for all doctors (2012)
Personal beliefs and medical practice
Good practice in prescribing medicines (2008)
Good practice in prescribing and managing medicines and devices (2013)
Raising and acting on concerns about patient safety (2012)
Writing references (2012)
Reporting criminal and regulatory proceedings within and outside the UK
Duties of a doctor
Remote prescribing via telephone, fax, video-link or online
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