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Good Medical Practice
Good medical practice is the GMC’s core guidance for medical professionals (doctors, physician associates and anaesthesia associates). It sets out the values and principles on which good practice is founded.
The guidance is divided into four domains:
- Knowledge, skills and performance
- Safety and quality
- Communication, partnership and teamwork
- Maintaining trust
Good medical practice is supported by a range of more detailed guidance which provide more good practice principles on various topics that medical professionals and others ask us about.
- Being honest if things go wrong
- Continuity of care
- Ending your relationship with a patient
- Social media
- Basic care
- Conscientious objection
- Acting as a witness
- Financial interests/conflicts of interest
- Prescribing
- Research
- Maintaining boundaries
- Social media
- Reasonable adjustments
- Supporting self-care
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Lesley is a 73 year old woman who has osteoarthritis in her hip. Her condition affects her mobility, though she can manage most of the time on her own. She has had a fall at home and has come to the accident and emergency department of her local hospital with bruises and a fractured left wrist.