GP Person Specification
As a General Practitioner, you have an obligation to ensure that you always prioritise patient care, deliver good medical practice and high quality care.
The person specifications for the GP include:
- Empathy and sensitivity
- Communication skills
- Conceptual thinking and problem solving
- Coping with pressure
- Organisation and planning
- Managing others and team involvement
- Professional integrity
- Learning and professional development
Below is a guideline outlined in Good Medical Practice:
- Make the care of your patient your first concern
- Treat every patient politely and considerately
- Respect patients' dignity and privacy
- Listen to patients and respect their views
- Give patients information in a way they can understand
- Respect the rights of patients to be fully involved in decisions about their care
- Keep your professional knowledge and skills up to date
- Recognise the limits of your professional competences
- Be honest and trustworthy
- Respect and protect confidential information
- Make sure that your personal beliefs do not prejudice your patients' care
- Act quickly to protect patients from risk if you have good reason to believe that you or a colleague may not be fit to practise
- Avoid abusing your position as a doctor
- Work with colleagues in the ways that best serve patients' interests
To develop your leadership and management skills as a General Practitioners, view our recommended GP Career Development Course