The Faculty of Occupational Medicine has published guidelines for good practice for occupational physicians.
Good Occupational Medical Practice can be downloaded free from the website, at www.faccomed.ac.uk
They are a specialty-specific interpretation of the General Medical Council’s “Good medical practice” booklet. The guidance contains detailed statements about good occupational health practice.
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The faculty said there is a need for new, additional guidance for occupational physicians because of the significant difference between the practice of an OH physician and doctors from other specialties.
It said: “The occupational physician usually has responsibilities to employers as well as to workers. Moreover, occupational physicians often work in privately organised occupational health services, and undertake a range of clinical and managerial activities that differ markedly from those of other doctors,” it has stressed.
