GMC Policy: Good Medical Practice
GMC Policy: Good Medical Practice
The GMC has produced guidance for doctors called “Good Medical Practice” (“GMP”). The version in force at the material time in this case states at para 1:
“Patients need good doctors. Good doctors… act with integrity and within the law.”
The section of GMP entitled “Act with honesty and integrity” states at para 65:
“You must make sure that your conduct justifies your patients’ trust in you and the public’s trust in the profession.”
- Heading
- Introduction
- Legal framework
- Sanctions guidance
- Proportionality
- Mitigating and aggravating factors
- Treatment of criminal convictions
- Suspension
- Erasure
- GMC Policy: Good Medical Practice
- The facts
- Proceedings before the MPT
- Remorse
- Insight
- Risk of repetition
- Impairment
- Sanction
- Appellant’s overarching submissions
- The approach of the Guidance to violent offences
- MPT’s approach to insight and remorse
- Ground 1: Failure to balance aggravating and mitigating factors appropriately
- Ground 2: Failure to apply the Guidance and precedents correctly
- Other cases
- Guidance
- Public perception
- Ground 3: Error in the determination of sanction
- Seriousness of offending
- Insight and remediation
- Conclusions
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