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Professional 1: Practical clinical governance
Turn governance from a meeting structure into a practical method for recognising risk, escalating concerns, learning from incidents and demonstrating assurance.
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Professional 6: Professional standards in everyday practice
Use Good medical practice as a practical framework for competence, respect, teamwork, honesty, raising concerns and sustainable professional behaviour.
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Foundations of confidentiality and information governance
Build the five-layer model for confidentiality decisions and distinguish professional duties, common law, data-protection law, statutory authority and organisational governance.
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What information is confidential and who owes the duty
Recognise confidential information across records, conversations, images and digital systems, and understand access, anonymisation, pseudonymisation and confidentiality after death.
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Consent, implied consent and sharing for direct care
Separate treatment consent, confidentiality consent and data-protection lawful basis, and apply proportionate information sharing for direct care, families and multidisciplinary teams.
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UK GDPR, DPA 2018 and DUAA in clinical practice
Apply the current UK data-protection framework after the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, including lawful bases, special-category data, purpose limitation, access and rectification.
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Sharing without consent: public interest, serious harm and safeguarding
Use proportional, documented reasoning when confidentiality may need to be breached to protect patients or others, including safeguarding and serious-harm scenarios.
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Police, courts, regulators, employers and other third parties
Distinguish a request from a legal duty, verify authority, limit disclosure and manage police, court, regulator, employer, insurer and solicitor requests safely.
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Children, capacity, deceased patients and complex relationships
Apply confidentiality principles where decision-making authority is complex: children and young people, adults lacking capacity, proxies, relatives and deceased patients.
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Records, access, corrections, retention and information lifecycle
Manage accurate clinical records across creation, access, correction, retention, subject access and secure disposal while preserving historical integrity.
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Digital professionalism, messaging, images, cloud systems and AI
Apply confidentiality and data-protection principles to email, messaging, photographs, recordings, remote care, cloud platforms and AI without relying on product-specific rules.
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Data breaches, cyber security, accountability and applied judgement
Recognise and respond to information incidents, preserve evidence, escalate promptly, support breach assessment and integrate the whole programme through complex scenarios.
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The prescriber’s role: purpose, scope and accountability
What prescribing is; independent/supplementary models; competence; accountability; deciding not to prescribe.
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Clinical assessment and diagnostic reasoning
History, examination principles, red flags, investigations, differential diagnosis, uncertainty and escalation.
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Applied pharmacology for prescribers
Mechanisms, dose-response, therapeutic index, adverse effects, tolerance/dependence and class reasoning.
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Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and individual variation
ADME, half-life, steady state, dose adjustment, age/frailty/genetics/physiology.
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Safe prescribing, calculations and medicines information
Prescription components, numeracy, formulations/routes, BNF/formularies, evidence and decision support.
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Interactions, contraindications and high-risk medicines
Drug interactions, allergies, high-risk medicines, monitoring and escalation.
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Medicines optimisation, polypharmacy and deprescribing
Reconciliation, structured review, burden, adherence, deprescribing and shared decisions.
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Prescribing in special situations
Renal/hepatic impairment, frailty, pregnancy/breastfeeding, children, weight, multimorbidity and route issues.
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Monitoring, adverse reactions and pharmacovigilance
Baseline/follow-up monitoring, ADRs, Yellow Card, toxicity, safety-netting and incident learning.
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Antimicrobial prescribing and stewardship
Diagnosis, microbiology, local guidance, spectrum, dose/duration, review/de-escalation and resistance.
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Patient partnership and complex prescribing decisions
Consent, capacity, communication, adherence, remote prescribing, self/family prescribing and complex judgement.
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Governance, errors and transition to formal prescribing education
Professional standards, documentation, scope, legal/employer governance, incidents, portfolios and next steps.
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The pharmacist independent prescriber role
Current GPhC architecture, 2026 transition, legacy routes, accountability and multidisciplinary prescribing.
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What nurse prescribing is
NMC categories, independent/supplementary/community prescribing, annotation, prescribing vs PGD/supply/administration.
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Preparing for an NMC-approved prescribing programme
Readiness, assessment/diagnostic capability, pharmacology/numeracy, AEI selection, supervised practice and portfolio.
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Preparing for formal IP development and prescribing practice
Approved routes where required, assessment/diagnostic development, supervised practice and evidence.
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From qualification to safe workplace practice
Annotation, employer governance, scope, controlled drugs, supervision, revalidation/CPD and Wales assurance.
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Governance, scope and transition into an IP role
Employer governance, service scope, controlled drugs, remote prescribing, supervision and maintaining competence.
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Using Good Medical Practice: standards, judgement and accountability
How should a doctor interpret Good medical practice in real work, and how do GMC standards relate to law, local policy, revalidation and fitness-to-practise processes? Conceptual foundation. This module does not teach the detail of every later duty; it teaches how to reason with professional standards and identify the source of an obligation.
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Competence and good clinical care: limits, evidence and safe practice
What does professional competence require across clinical and non-clinical work, and how should doctors respond when task, supervision, evidence, consultation mode or resources exceed safe limits? Focus on competence and safe clinical reasoning. Detailed consent, prescribing and capacity rules are cross-linked rather than duplicated.
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Keeping up to date: reflection, improvement, appraisal and revalidation
How do continuing development, quality improvement, feedback, reflection, appraisal and revalidation fit together without becoming a portfolio-compliance exercise? Explains the professional and regulatory architecture; a later Appraisal/Revalidation programme will teach detailed portfolio construction.
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Patients as partners: dignity, fairness, communication and shared decisions
How should doctors translate dignity, fairness, communication and patient partnership into everyday clinical behaviour, and where do consent, capacity, confidentiality and equality law add further requirements? Provides the Domain 2 professional framework and signposts the existing Consent/Mental Capacity programmes and future Confidentiality course for deeper legal mechanics.
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Whole-patient duties: safeguarding, emergencies, candour and complaints
What professional duties arise when a patient is vulnerable, urgent care is needed, harm has occurred or a complaint is made, and how do professional candour and organisational duties interact? Focuses on professional response and system interfaces. Safeguarding law and end-of-life decision-making are signposted rather than exhaustively taught.
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Colleagues and culture: respect, fairness, leadership and support
How does GMP translate culture, respect, discrimination, leadership, supervision and support into individual professional duties at every level of seniority? Teaches professional behaviours and interfaces with equality/employment law. A later Leadership programme will go deeper into organisational design and leadership methods.
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Continuity, supervision, delegation, referral and records
How should responsibility and information move safely across people, professions, organisations and time, and what remains with the doctor when work is delegated or referred? Focuses on continuity and distributed responsibility; detailed records/confidentiality and specialty handover protocols remain local or course-specific.
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Safety and speaking up: governance, concerns and fitness to work
What should doctors do when patient safety is compromised by systems, colleagues or their own health, and how do professional duties interact with whistleblowing, governance and reasonable-adjustment frameworks? Focuses on recognition, escalation and support. It does not give case-specific employment-law advice or replace occupational-health assessment.
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Trust and professionalism: honesty, boundaries, beliefs and conflicts
What does professional integrity require when money, relationships, personal beliefs, reputation or other interests could influence medical judgement? Deep treatment of probity/integrity and conflicts. Detailed confidentiality, research governance and employment investigation procedures remain outside scope.
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Professional communication and accountability: digital, public, legal and integrated practice
How should doctors communicate and cooperate when professional statements may influence patients, the public, employers, regulators or courts, and how can the four GMP domains be integrated in complex cases? Integrative final module. It teaches principles of professional communication and legal/regulatory cooperation, not advocacy strategy or detailed litigation procedure.
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Professional 2: Career development for SAS doctors
Build a deliberate career plan across clinical expertise, Specialist roles, leadership, education, Portfolio Pathway and later-career choices.
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Professional 3: Appraisal, revalidation and the useful portfolio
Prepare for annual appraisal and revalidation by maintaining a proportionate whole-practice portfolio built around reflection, improvement and credible evidence.
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Professional 4: Digital professionalism and safe information handling
Apply confidentiality and professional standards to email, messaging, electronic records, online tools, social media and emerging AI-enabled workflows.
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Professional 5: Communication, shared decisions and difficult conversations
Strengthen patient and colleague communication by making decisions, uncertainty, risk, expectations and escalation explicit.
