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GMC: Good Medical Practice Consultation

What can you expect from your doctor?

The General Medical Council wants to hear from doctors and patients about their views on new proposed standards for doctors.

A major public consultation has been launched to review Good Medical Practice,the core guidance for doctors in the UK. Every doctor is expected to meet the standards set in Good Medical Practice.

Good Medical Practice sets out the principles and values on which high-quality patient care is founded. It is vital that the GMC hears from patients and doctors across the UK about the new proposed standards.

Patients, and particularly vulnerable adults and children will receive greater protection under the new measures. The GMC is asking doctors to take responsibility for continuity of care when they are the patient’s lead clinician. The draft guidance also asks doctors to take prompt action to deal with problems with basic care, particularly for patients who are unable to drink, feed or clean themselves.

Further new advice to doctors in Good Medical Practice covers:


Behaviour online and the use of social networking sites
Taking into account a patient’s broader history – including spiritual, religious, psychological, social and cultural factors
Encouraging patients to stay in or return to employment or other purposeful activity

The revised edition of the guidance is more concise in response to recommendations from doctors and patients. And for the first time the GMC will produce Good Medical Practice for Patients which will make clear to patients what they can expect from their doctor.

You can submit your response to the consultation via the GMC’s consultation website www.gmc-uk.org/gmp2012.

The consultation will run until 10 February 2012.

Visit our website for the latest news and consultations on our ethical guidance.

This includes a current consultation on guidance on new child protection, a review of Good Medical Practice and new supplementary guidance, Making and using visual and audio recordings of patients.

General Medical Council
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Regents Place, 350 Euston Road, London, NW1 3JN
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