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Professional Conduct And Discipline:Fitness to Practise
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Book : Professional Conduct And Discipline:Fitness to Practise Language : English Library : Social Phsician Publish Place : London Publish Date : August 1983 Publisher : Spottiswoode Ballantyne Ltd. Book Number : 3674 |
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INDEX
CONTENTS
PARTI
DISCIPLINARY PROCESSES OF THE COUNCIL
Statutory Provisions
Convictions The Meaning of "Serious Professional Misconduct"................
The Professional Conduct Committee and the Preliminary Proceedings Committee - Rules of Procedure
Proceedings: The Preliminary Stages .......
Powers of the Preliminary Proceedings Committee Warning Letters - Inquiries before the Professional Conduct Committee.............
Powers of the Professional Conduct Committee at the Conclusion of an Inquiry - Postponement of Determination ..................
Conditional Registration - Suspension of Registration . .
Erasure Appeal Procedure and Immediate Suspension Restoration to the Register after Disciplinary Erasure .
PART II
CONVICTIONS AND FORMS OF PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT WHICH MAY LEAD TO DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS.......
(i) Neglect or disregard of personal responsibilities to patients for their care and treatment
(a) Responsibility for standards of medical care .
(b) Improper delegation of medical duties . . . . . (ii) Abuse of professional privileges or skills
(a) Abuse of privileges conferred by law : Misuse of professional skills
(1) Prescribing of drugs...........
(2) Medical certificates
(3) Termination of pregnancy........
(b) Abuse of privileges conferred by custom Professional confidence : Undue influence : Personal relationships between doctors and patients
(iii) Personal behaviour : Conduct derogatory to the reputation of the profession..........
(a) Personal misuse or abuse of alcohol or other drugs
(b) Dishonesty : Improper financial transactions
(c) Indecency and violence..........(iv) Advertising, canvassing and related professional offences
(a) Advertising: general considerations......
(b) Depreciation of other doctors : Canvassing . . .
(c) Improper arrangements to extend a doctor's practice.................
Conclusion: The nature of serious professional misconduct.................
PART III
ADVICE ON STANDARDS OF PROFESSIONAL
CONDUCT AND ON MEDICAL ETHICS
(i) Personal relationships between doctors and patients .
(ii) Professional confidence...........
(iii) Principles governing the reference of patients to, and
their acceptance by, doctors providing specialist
services
(a) Reference of patients to specialists .....
(b) Acceptance of patients by specialists.....
(iv) Advertising: Circumstances in which questions of
advertising most commonly arise .......
(a) Notices or announcements by doctors
(b) Questions of advertising arising from relationships between doctors and organisations providing clinical, diagnostic or medical advisory services......
(c) Public references to doctors by other companies or organisations...............
(d) Questions of advertising arising from articles or books, broadcasting or television appearances by doctors.................
(e) Signposts or noticeboards relating to health centres or medical centres : Choice of titles for such centres or for group practices.............
(v) Relationships between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical and allied industries.......
(a) Clinical trials of drugs..........
(b) Gifts and loans.............
(c) Acceptance of hospitality.........
PART IV
FITNESS TO PRACTISE: The procedures associated with the Health Committee...........
