General Medical Council
Regulating doctors, ensuring good medical practice
The GMC has a statutory role to provide guidance to doctors on medical ethics.
We are reviewing our core guidance, Good Medical Practice (2006), which sets out the principles and values on which good practice is founded.
Choose what the doctor should do in a series of case studies highlighting how the guidance might work in practice.
We also publish supporting ethical guidance which provides more detail on how to comply with the principles in Good Medical Practice.
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