Podcast

New GMC guidance on confidentiality for doctors 

 

The GMC has launched new guidance on confidentiality for doctors. Confidentiality is central to the trust between patient and doctor but the guidance explains some occasional exceptions to this important rule.

 

Listen to the podcast which explores when a doctor can tell the police if a patient presents with a suspicious knife or gunshot wounds. Dr Tunji Lasoye, lead consultant in King’s College hospital emergency department talks about his experiences treating knife wounds and how the new guidance will help is work.  

 

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