GMC guidance upheld

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.

Women and the GMC.

Dr George Percival joined the consultant staff when the new building was opened in 1936. Trained in Paris, Lausanne, and Zurich, he knew as well as Dr Jamieson how to deal with leg eczema. Sir Robert Grant, the head of a family already lavishly generous to the University of Edinburgh, was aware of the damage that skin disease could do to his employees, and was unhappy when he developed eczema o...