Chronology of The RCGP by Subject

Ethics

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1958
 
Ethical Subcommittee formed.
 
 
1969
 
Symposium "Ethics and the practice of medicine".
 
 
1978
 
Confidentiality working party of the Awards and Ethics committee
 
1979 Paper by Michael Drury for RCGP/GMSC on role of College in clinical trials in general practice including ethical standards
 
1980
 
Medical Surveillance Centre established "to offer advice to general practitioners wishingto engage in clinical trials and will offer specific projects to groups of general practitioners, to university departments or to its own research units."
 
 
1981
 
Clinical trials ethical committee established.[Became Clinical Research Ethics Committee]
 

1987

Committee on Medical Ethics established

 

1988

Committee on Medical Ethics report on research use of foetuses

 

1989

Medical Ethics Committee considers the issue of confidentiality and video recording consultations for teaching purposes

 

1989

Medical Ethics Committee considers the death penalty following an approach by Amnesty International. The Committee drew a distinction between involvement in the killing of a person and attending to them as doctors. Those sentenced to death must not be deprived of professional medical care and comfort.

 

1991 Guidelines on payments to GPs doing clinical research produced by the Clinical  Research Ethics Committee

7th Oct 1999

 

Patient Participant and Ethical Considerations in Primary Care Research conference

1999

Towards a Philosophy of General Practice- A Study of the Virtuous Practitioner by Peter Toon Occasional Paper No. 78 This paper set out to explore of the nature and meaning of virtue in a general practice context.

 

Nov 2000

 

Launch of Confidentiality Toolkit  and "Trust" video produced by Adolescent Working Party

 

Nov 2002 Position Statement on Organ  Donation by Dr Ann Orme-Smith (Committee on Medical Ethics)
15th January 2003
"Report Writing in Clinical Negligence" for GP's meeting
16 June 2004

Consent and Introduction to Confidentiality The Legal Perspective conference

 

Dec 2005 Curriculum Statement 3.3 Ethics and Values Based Medicine by
Professor Bill Fulford, Professor Jeremy Dale, Professor Ed Peile, Professor Yvonne Carter, Kim Woodbridge
 
April 2006 Ethics newsletter
30 June 2006 RCGP Statement on NHS Shared Care Record Service

The Royal College of GPs’ Ethics Committee recommends that patients should have the right to “opt in” – thereby providing explicit consent - to the sharing of their medical information on the NHS Care Record. However, we do feel that if adequate safeguards can be put in place, in time as the system becomes more secure and patients are more aware that their records will be shared, it may be possible to move to an “opt out” position.

The RCGP acknowledges the value of the shared medical record to help improve patient care and safety

 

Sep 2006

Launch of Ethical Guidance Database

 

15 July 2009 Patients, Profit and Primary Care - Health Inequalities, Ethics and Privitisation conference

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