United Kingdom
Scotland Factsheets
Select a factsheet from the list below, written specifically for our members in Scotland.
- NEW: Access to health records
- NEW: Safeguarding children
- NEW: Safeguarding children - FAQs
- UPDATED: Confidentiality – general principles
- UPDATED: Confidentiality – disclosures relating to patients unable to consent
- UPDATED: Confidentiality – disclosures without consent
- Out of hours
- Safe prescribing
- Adults with Incapacity Act
- GMC Fitness to Practise - Civil standard of proof
- Removing patients from the practice list
- Removal of medical equipment after death
- NHS complaints procedure - Local Resolution
- NHS complaints procedure – Second Stage Complaints
- Medical records
- Parental responsibility
- Report writing
- Confidential disclosure/Whistleblowing
- Consent – children and young people
- Consent – the basics