GMC Guidance on Good Medical Practice

GPs required to treat patients with respect whatever their life choices/beliefs, and not to discriminate against patients by allowing personal views to affect adversely GPs professional relationship with them or the treatment provided/arranged.

The General Medical Council’s guidance Good Medical Practice (2006) states, in a section headed ‘Decisions about access to medical care’:

You must not refuse or delay treatment because you believe that a patient's actions have contributed to their condition. You must treat your patients with respect whatever their life choices and beliefs. You must not unfairly discriminate against them by allowing your personal views* to affect adversely your professional relationship with them or the treatment you provide or arrange.

* This includes your views about a patient's age, colour, culture, disability, ethnic or national origin, gender, lifestyle, marital or parental status, race, religion or beliefs, sex, sexual orientation, or social or economic status.
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