General Medical Practice- GMC

Good Medical Practice

Sets out principles, values and standards of care and professional behaviour expected of all medical professiona;;s registered with the GMC.

4 domains in the GMP

Knowledge, skills and performance

Patients, partnership and communication

Colleagues, culture and safety

Trust and professionalism

Knowledge, skills and performance

Good medical professionals are:

• Competent

• Provide good standard of clinical care

• Maintain, develop and improve their performance (audits, revalidation, mentoring)

• Managing resources effectively and sustainably

Competent

• in formal leadership/management roles, research and teaching

• work within limits of competence

• up-to-date with guidelines and developments and follow them

• necessary knowledge of english language to provide good care

Provide good standard of clinical care

• work in partnership with patients when assessing, diagnosing and treating them, to assess their needs and priorities

• take history, physical exam if necessary, promptly provide advice, investigation/treatment where necessary, only prescribe with adequate knowledge of patient health and satisified prescription meets patients needs, provide treatment based on best available evidence, seek advice from supervising clinical when appropriate, refer when necessary

Managing resources effectively and sustainably

• Make good use of resources available taking into account your responsibilities to patients and wider population

• Choose sustainable solutions when possible, provided they don’t compromise care standards

Patients, partnership and communication

• Treat patients fairly and respect their rights

• Treat patients with kindnesss, courtesy and respect

• Supporting patients decisions about treatment and care

• Sharing information with patients

• Communicating with those close to patient

• Caring for the whole patient

• Safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of harm

• Helping in emergencies

• Making sure patients that who pose a risk of harm to others can access appropriate care

• Be open if things go wrong (put matters right, apologise, explain fully and promptly issue + short+ long term side effects, report incident)

Colleagues, culture and safety

• Treating colleagues with kindness, courtesy and respect

• Contributing to positive working and training environment

• Demonstrating leadership behaviours

• Contributing to continuity of care

• Delegating safely and appropriately

• Recording work clearly, accurately and legiblely

• Keeping patients safe

• Responding to safety risks

• Managing risks posed by your health

Trust and professionalism

Acting with honesty and integrity

Maintaining professional boundaries

Communicating as a medical professional

Managing conflicts of interest

Cooperating with legal and regulatory requirements