Professional Guidance

Where we have identified a need to say more on a topic to protect patient safety or maintain public confidence, we have set out Professional Guidance. Professional Guidance sets out clear direction from the GDC in areas where clear boundaries or specific obligations are required.  The framework currently sets professional guidance in the following areas:

• Scope of Practice (effective from 1 November 2025)
• Professional Indemnity and Insurance (effective from 12 February 2024)
• Reporting matters to the GDC (effective from 1 February 2025)
• Guidance on advertising (to stay live with a light touch update to reflect the Principles, until it can be reviewed and replaced with professional guidance on communication)
• Guidance on using social media (to stay live with a light touch update to reflect the Principles, until it can be reviewed and replaced with Professional guidance on communication)
• Professional guidance on consent and shared decision making^[1]