Good Medical Practice (2006)

Probity

Being honest and trustworthy – paragraphs 56-59

  1. Probity means being honest and trustworthy, and acting with integrity: this is at the heart of medical professionalism.

  2. You must make sure that your conduct at all times justifies your patients’ trust in you and the public’s trust in the profession.

  3. You must inform the GMC without delay if, anywhere in the world, you have accepted a caution, been charged with or found guilty of a criminal offence, or if another professional body has made a finding against your registration as a result of fitness to practise procedures.

  4. If you are suspended by an organisation from a medical post, or have restrictions placed on your practice you must, without delay, inform any other organisations for which you undertake medical work and any patients you see independently.

 

Further GMC guidance

Fitness to Practise