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Good Medical Practice: Maintaining & improving your performance
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:
a. maintain a folder of information and evidence, drawn from your medical practice
b. reflect regularly on your standards of medical practice in accordance with GMC guidance on licensing and revalidation
c. take part in regular and systematic audit
d. take part in systems of quality assurance and quality improvement
e. respond constructively to the outcome of audit, appraisals and performance reviews, undertaking further training where necessary
f. help to resolve uncertainties about the effects of treatments
g. contribute to confidential inquiries and adverse event recognition and reporting, to help reduce risk to patients
h. report suspected adverse drug reactions in accordance with the relevant reporting scheme
i. co-operate with legitimate requests for information from organisations monitoring public health – when doing so you must follow the guidance in
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Further GMC guidance
[14a] Licensing and revalidation
[14c] 0-18 years guidance: paragraph 73
[14h] Prescribing guidance
[14i] Confidentiality guidance
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[14] Supplement to Good Medical Practice (Disability Rights Commission, 2007)
[14e] Appraisal information (Department of Health, England)
[14e] Consultant Appraisal - A Brief Guide (Scottish Executive)
[14e] Appraisal - A Brief Guide for Non-Consultant Career Grades (Scottish Executive)
[14e] Appraisal information (Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Northern Ireland)
[14e] Appraisal information and guidance (Wales)
[14g] National Patient Safety Agency
[14h] Yellow Card Scheme (Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency)
[14h] Reporting adverse drug reactions: A guide for healthcare professionals (British Medical Association, 2006)
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