Good Medical Practice (2006)

Relationships with patients

Confidentiality – paragraph 37

  1. Patients have a right to expect that information about them will be held in confidence by their doctors. You must treat information about patients as confidential, including after a patient has died. If you are considering disclosing confidential information without a patient's consent, you must follow the guidance in with Confidentiality: Protecting and providing information.

 

Further GMC guidance

Fitness to Practise