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Part C: The maintenance of professional standards: knowledge, skills and<br />
performance.<br />
Develop and maintain your professional performance.<br />
Record your work clearly.<br />
Respond to risks to safety.<br />
Honesty in financial dealings<br />
Consent<br />
Consent to treatment.<br />
Exceptions to informed consent by competent patients.<br />
Decision-making for mentally incompetent patients.<br />
The patient’s best interests.<br />
Medical confidentiality.<br />
5. The general duty to respect confidentiality.<br />
a. Disclosures required by law.<br />
6. Consent to disclosure of information.<br />
a. Circumstances in which patients may give implied consent to disclosure.<br />
b. Disclosures for which express consent should be sought.<br />
c. Disclosures in the public interest.<br />
7. Disclosures to protect the patient.<br />
8. Disclosures to protect others.<br />
9. Disclosures about patients who lack capacity to consent.
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