News and consultations - guidance on good practice

We publish ethical guidance that tells doctors the standards of professional conduct and medical ethics they are expected to follow.

In this section you can find out about the latest news on guidance development, including news on consultations we are carrying out.

Read more about:

• Review of our consent guidance
• Capacity and consent: new tool to support your decision making
• Guidance for all doctors who offer cosmetic interventions
• Joint statement from the GMC, General Pharmaceutical Council and the Pharmaceutical Council Northern Ireland (pdf)
• Openness and honesty when things go wrong – new guidance for doctors, nurses and midwives
• Competition and Markets Authority Order – Q & A
• Development of new guidance for doctors who carry out cosmetic procedures
• GMC consultation on doctors, nurses and midwives being open and honest when things go wrong
• GMC publishes joint statement setting out a professional duty of candour for doctors and other health professionals (pdf).
• Better care for older people
• Guidance for doctors acting as responsible consultants and clinicians
• Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying People (LACDP)
• Core guidance for doctors: read Good medical practice 2013 and explanatory guidance
• Guidance on Good practice in prescribing and managing medicines and devices (2013)
• Guidance relating to assisting suicide    
• Guidance on Protecting children and young people 
• Guidance on Leadership and management for all doctors and Raising and acting on concerns about patient safety 
• Conflicts of interest: what our guidance says