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Good Medical Practice (2006)

Maintaining good medical practice

Maintaining and improving your performance – paragraph 14

14. You must work with colleagues and patients to maintain and improve the quality of your work and promote patient safety. In particular, you must:
    
    
    1. maintain a folder of information and evidence, drawn from your medical practice
    2. reflect regularly on your standards of medical practice in accordance with GMC guidance on licensing and revalidation
    3. take part in regular and systematic audit
    4. take part in systems of quality assurance and quality improvement
    5. respond constructively to the outcome of audit, appraisals and performance reviews, undertaking further training where necessary
    6. help to resolve uncertainties about the effects of treatments
    7. contribute to confidential inquiries and adverse event recognition and reporting, to help reduce risk to patients
    8. report suspected adverse drug reactions in accordance with the relevant reporting scheme
    9. co-operate with legitimate requests for information from organisations monitoring public health – when doing so you must follow the guidance in with Confidentiality: Protecting and providing information.