News and consultations
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:
- Forthcoming consultation on GMC guidance on research and making and using recordings of patients
- Updated guidance on reporting convictions, conflicts of interest, and prescribing
- Review of GMC Guidance, ‘Confidentiality: Protecting and providing information’ (2004)
- Reporting knife wounds - interim guidance from the GMC and Department of Health
- New guidance - Acting as an Expert Witness
- Initial consultation - Consent to research
- New guidance - Consent: patients and doctors making decisions together
- New guidance issued – Personal Beliefs and Medical Practice
- Working with the Mental Capacity Act
- New guidance published: 0-18 years: guidance for all doctors
- New guidance on doctor’s responsibilities when writing references
- Important note for doctors: Update to Serious Communicable Diseases guidance
- Joint guidance on the use of IT equipment
- Good Medical Practice Review