Box 1.
General Medical Council outcomes for doctors, the doctor as practitioner.10
| Use information effectively in a medical context. |
| a. Keep accurate, legible and complete clinical records |
| b. Make effective use of computers and other information systems, including storing and retrieving information |
| c. Keep to the requirements of confidentiality and data protection legislation and codes of practice in all dealings with information |
| d. Access information sources and use the information in relation to patient care, health promotion, advice and information to patients, and research and education |
| e. Apply the principles, method and knowledge of health informatics to medical practice. |