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Guidance on good practice

• The Review of Good Medical Practice
  • About the review
  • Doctors’ use of social media
  • Launch of Good Medical Practice – 25 March 2013
  • GMP Easy read questionnaire
  • Watch
  • Julia's Day
  • Consultation on explanatory guidance
  • Earlier in the review
    • October 2011
    • September 2011
    • August 2011
    • July 2011
    • June 2011
    • Outcome of the initial engagement
  • Keep in touch
• Good Medical Practice
  • Contents
  • How Good Medical Practice applies to you
  • Duties of a doctor
  • Good doctors
  • Good clinical care
    • Providing good clinical care
    • Supporting self care
    • Avoid treating those close to you
    • Raising concerns about patient safety
    • Decisions about access to clinical care
    • Treatment in emergencies
  • Maintaining good medical practice
    • Keeping up to date
    • Maintaining & improving your performance
  • Teaching and training, appraising and assessing
  • Relationships with patients
    • Doctor patient partnership
    • Good communication
    • Children and young people
    • Relatives, carers and partners
    • Being open and honest with patients
    • Maintaining trust in the profession
    • Consent
    • Confidentiality
    • Ending your professional relationship
  • Working with colleagues
    • Working in teams
    • Conduct and performance of colleagues
    • Respect for colleagues
    • Arranging cover
    • Taking up and ending appointments
    • Sharing information with colleagues
    • Delegation and referral
  • Probity
    • Being honest and trustworthy
    • Providing/publishing information about your services
    • Writing reports and cvs
    • Research
    • Financial and commercial dealings
    • Conflicts of interest
  • Health
• List of ethical guidance
  • Protecting children and young people
    • Contents
    • About this guidance
    • Principles for protecting children and young people
    • Identifying children and young people at risk of, or suffering, abuse or neglect
    • Communication and support
    • Working in partnership
    • Confidentiality and sharing information
    • Keeping records
    • Child protection examinations
    • Training and development
    • Doctors giving evidence in court
    • Appendix 1 - Assessing the capacity of a child or young person
    • Appendix 2 - Assessing best interests
    • Definitions of children, young people and parents
    • Other sources of information and guidance
    • References
    • Case studies
  • 0-18 years
    • Contents
    • Introduction
    • Assessing best interests
    • Communication
    • Making decisions
    • Principles of confidentiality
    • Access to medical records by children
    • Child protection
    • Sexual activity
    • Contraception, abortion and STIs
    • Suitability to work with children and young people
    • Complaints
    • Prescribing medicines
    • Supplementary information
  • Accountability in Multi-disciplinary and Multi-Agency Mental Health Teams
  • Taking up and ending appointments
  • Making and using visual and audio recordings of patients
    • Contents
    • Introduction
    • Scope of this guidance
    • Principles
    • Recordings made as part of a patient's care, including investigation or treatment of a condition
    • Recordings made for research, teaching, training and other healthcare-related purposes
    • Recordings for use in widely accessible public media (television, radio, internet, print)
    • Deceased patients
    • Making recordings covertly
    • Recording telephone calls
    • Storing and disposing of recordings
    • Other sources of information and guidance
  • Confidentiality
    • Contents
    • About this guidance
    • Principles
    • Protecting information
    • Disclosures required by law
    • Disclosing information with consent
    • The public interest
    • Disclosures about patients who lack capacity to consent
    • Sharing information with a patient's partner, carers, relatives or friends
    • Genetic and other shared information
    • Disclosure after a patient's death
    • Supplementary information
    • Learning materials
  • Conflicts of interest
  • Consent guidance
    • Contents
    • How the guidance applies to you
    • Part 1: Principles
    • Part 2: Making decisions about investigations and treatment
    • Part 3: Capacity issues
    • Legal annex
    • Endnotes
  • End of life care
    • Contents
    • About this guidance
    • Guidance
    • Principles
    • Decision-making models
    • Working with the principles and decision-making models
    • Neonates, children and young people
    • Meeting patients' nutrition and hydration needs
    • Clinically assisted nutrition and hydration
    • Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
    • References
    • Legal Annex
    • Glossary of terms
    • Learning materials
  • Maintaining boundaries
  • Research guidance
    • Good practice in research
    • Consent to research
    • Research definitions
    • Supporting documents
    • Research definitions
  • Leadership and management for all doctors (2012)
    • About this guidance
    • Leadership and management guidance: Contents
    • Duties of a doctor in the workplace
    • Working with colleagues
    • Maintaining and improving standards of care
    • Employment
    • Planning, using and managing resources
    • References
  • Personal beliefs and medical practice
  • Good practice in prescribing medicines (2008)
  • Good practice in prescribing and managing medicines and devices (2013)
    • Prescribing guidance: About this guidance
    • Keeping up to date
    • Need and objectivity
    • Consent
    • Sharing information with colleagues
    • Shared care
    • Raising concerns
    • Reporting adverse drug reactions, medical device incidents and other patient safety incidents
    • Reviewing medicines
    • Repeat prescribing and prescribing with repeats
    • Remote prescribing via telephone, video-link or online
    • Prescribing unlicensed medicines
    • Sports medicine
  • Raising and acting on concerns about patient safety (2012)
    • Contents
    • About this guidance
    • Part 1: Raising a concern
    • Part 2: Acting on a concern
    • Useful contacts
  • Writing references (2012)
  • Reporting criminal and regulatory proceedings within and outside the UK
  • Duties of a doctor
  • Remote prescribing via telephone, fax, video-link or online
• Interactive case studies
  • Good Medical Practice in Action - Part 1
  • Good Medical Practice in Action - Part 2
  • Good Medical Practice in Action - Part 3
  • Good Medical Practice in Action - Part 4
  • Good Medical Practice in Action - Part 5
  • Help accessing GMP in Action
• Learning materials
• Search the guidance
• A-Z of ethical guidance
• News and consultations
  • New guidance on leadership and raising concerns
  • New guidance on Protecting children and young people
  • New guidance on Good practice in prescribing and managing medicines and devices (2013)
  • Guidance relating to assisting suicide
  • End of life care - development of the guidance
    • Gurch Randhawa
    • Monica Carss-Frisk
    • Ilora Finlay
    • Jonathon Hope
• Archive
  • Guidance on good practice - archive
  • Past news and consultations
    • Call for evidence on the role of doctors in child protection
    • Personal Beliefs and Medical Practice
    • Working with the Mental Capacity Act
    • Children and young people - development of the guidance
    • Update to Serious Communicable Disease guidance
    • Joint guidance on the use of IT equipment
    • Good medical practice review
    • New guidance on Making and using visual and audio recordings of patient
    • Consultation on Good practice in prescribing medicines and devices
    • Consultation on Good Management Practice: guidance for all doctors
    • New e-learning session on end of life treatment and care
    • New Confidentiality learning materials
    • New guidance on end of life care launched
    • New guidance for doctors involved in research
    • Response to DPPs' consultation on Assisted Suicide
    • New guidance - Confidentiality
    • Updating guidance on reporting convictions, conflicts of interest and prescribing
    • Acting as an expert witness
    • Guidance for the Investigation Committee and case examiners when considering allegations about a doctor’s involvement in encouraging or assisting suicide

Concerns about doctors

• Complaints and the role of the GMC
• Making a complaint
  • Patients and the public
    • Patients' help - low bandwidth version
    • Referrals to a doctor's employer or contracting body
    • Frequently asked questions
    • Welsh language version
  • Doctors and other health professionals
    • A health professional's guide
• Doctors under investigation
  • A guide for referred doctors
  • The Doctor Support Service
  • Health assessments
  • Performance assessments
  • Competence assessments
    • Video about Tests of Competence
  • Undertakings
• Employers information
  • Employer Liaison Service
• The investigation process
  • Investigating concerns
  • When a warning is appropriate
  • The Investigation Committee
  • Our guidance for decision-makers
• Hearings and decisions
  • An introduction to the MPTS
  • Interim Orders Panel
  • Fitness to Practise Panels
    • The Role of a Panellist
  • Decisions
  • Sanctions guidance
  • Hearing information for doctors
• Help for witnesses
  • GMC witness support service
  • Before attending the hearing
    • Familiarising you with the MPTS hearing centre in Manchester
  • Attending the hearing
  • Giving evidence
  • After giving evidence
  • Useful information
• Fitness to Practise consultations
  • Consultation toolkit
  • FTP Panel Notices consultation
  • FTP reforms
• Printable documents
• Doctors' health concerns
  • Your Health Matters
  • Your Health Matters - low bandwidth version
    • Managing your health
    • Health assessment process
    • People who are involved
    • Agreements
    • Monitoring and supervision process
    • Case studies
    • Doctors' experiences
    • Resources

Publications

• The state of medical education and practice in the UK report: 2012
  • The state of medical education and practice in the UK 2011
• Standards and ethics guidance for doctors
• Medical education and training
  • Undergraduate education
  • Postgraduate education
• Concerns about a doctor
  • 2011 annual statistics
  • 2010 annual statistics
  • 2009 annual statistics
• About us
• Accessing information
  • Data protection
  • Freedom of information
  • Frequently asked questions
  • Publication scheme
    • List of available information
  • Comments and complaints for subject access and information requests
  • Contact the information access team
• Use of the GMC logo
• GMC News
  • January 2013
    • What's it like to revalidate?
    • Helping you to raise concerns
    • GMC fees for 2013-14 frozen or cut
  • December 2012
    • Revalidation has started
    • End of life care: helping doctors get it right
  • November 2012
    • Reviewing the shape of training: call for evidence now open
    • Barriers to and enablers of good practice
  • Special issue: The state of medical education and practice in the UK report
    • Introducing the report
    • Do you know your profession?
    • Complaints in context
  • September 2012
    • Strengthening the role of trainers
  • August 2012
    • Protecting children and young people: the responsibilities of all doctors
    • New guidance on continuing professional development
    • Doctors in training satisfied with quality but concerned about handovers
    • Doctors must not prescribe Botox by phone, email, video-link or fax
    • Could you help to lead the GMC?
    • New cookie law: what data do we collect?
  • June 2012
    • What do you need to do to revalidate for the first time?
    • Prevalence and causes of prescribing errors in general practice
    • New tribunal service taking over hearings from 11 June
  • May 2012
    • Revalidation: eight months to go
    • Revalidation: multi-source feedback
    • Guiding practice: explanatory guidance consultation
  • April 2012
    • Revalidation: nine months to go
    • Help us tackle poor care for people with learning disabilities
    • Changes to the way doctors who’ve not completed an approved training programme can gain specialist or GP registration
  • March 2012
    • Revalidation: 10 months to go
    • Sex selection and abortion: keep within the law
  • February 2012
    • Leading the way
    • What do you think of the PLAB test?
    • Your health matters
  • Special issue: raising concerns about patient safety
    • It's time to change the culture around raising concerns
    • Who can help if you're not sure what to do?
  • December 2011
    • Building on solid ground: your say on revalidation
    • We've cut your fees
  • November 2011
    • Keeping pace with good medical practice
    • Supporting professional development
  • October 2011
    • The state of medical education and practice
    • Better support for doctors new to UK practice
    • Know your profession? Five facts from the report
    • First step to new tribunal service
  • September 2011
    • The state of medical education and practice
    • Good Medical Practice: your help on shaping our core ethical guidance
    • Understanding doctors' practice
  • August 2011
    • Learning from revalidation pilots
  • July 2011
    • Bringing concerns about child abuse into the open
    • A clean bill of health for England?
    • A faster way to protect patients
  • June 2011
    • What is good medical practice?
    • Help improve training
    • Sign up to GMC Online today
  • May 2011
    • Simplifying approach to appraisal for revalidation
    • Can you film patients without telling them?
    • The right prescription
  • April 2011
    • How can we support your CPD?
    • Keeping our distance
  • March 2011
    • What makes a good doctor?
    • Keeping the patient first
    • UK Parliament stresses importance of revalidation
  • February 2011
    • Help us improve our fitness to practise procedures
    • Revalidation: preparing for 2012
    • GMC fees frozen or cut
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