Good Medical Practice: Health

This is the Health section of Good Medical Practice.

1. 77. You should be registered with a general practitioner outside your family to ensure that you have access to independent and objective medical care. You should not treat yourself.
2. 78. You should protect your patients, your colleagues and yourself by being immunised against common serious communicable diseases where vaccines are available.
3. 79. If you know that you have, or think that you might have, a serious condition that you could pass on to patients, or if your judgement or performance could be affected by a condition or its treatment, you must consult a suitably qualified colleague. You must ask for and follow their advice about investigations, treatment and changes to your practice that they consider necessary. You must not rely on your own assessment of the risk you pose to patients.
   

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