GMC guidance needed

GMC guidance on confidentiality: is it ethical?

The recent GMC guidance on confidentiality [1], especially the supplementary guidance [2], has caused much consternation amongst occupational physicians. The Faculty and Society of Occupational Medicine have issued a joint statement to members [3], and a GMC representative responded on the same day [4]. However, the 6 OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE

New GMC guidance takes a major, ethically flawed, backward step.

Does the GMC think it's immune to its own guidance regarding candour?

Dean has established the true degree of independence and transparency of the GMC’s Greenaway report. That this hasn’t sent shock waves through the medical establishment attests to the nature of the relations between the GMC, the Department of Health, and medical education quangos. Dean’s findings may reflect a pattern of behaviour at the GMC that does not favour candour. The recent report on de...

Southall: the GMC responds.

Vitamin D supplementation: less controversy, more guidance needed

Vitamin D is a secosteroid hormone with multiple functions that extend beyond the regulation of intestinal calcium absorption. In recent years, the publication of research articles investigating associations between vitamin D status and health has reached an all-time high, and an increase in supplementation studies has followed. Given the pleiotropic effects of vitamin D, the scientific focus h...