Holiday season office hours

Our office will be closed from 20 December 2025 and will reopen on 8 January 2026. During this period there will be minimal monitoring of email and phone enquiries, and responses may take longer than usual. Normal service will resume when the office reopens.

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Standards

Our principal function is to protect you by ensuring that doctors are competent and fit to practise. We do this by setting standards for doctors.

Current standards

Our current standards set out the principles and values that define good medical practice, and outline what we expect from doctors in all aspects of their professional behaviour.

Archived standards

Fitness to practise

One of our most important roles is ensuring doctors are fit to practise medicine. We have a set of standards which outline what we expect of doctors, and procedures to follow if there are concerns about a doctor's conduct, competence or health.

Conduct and competence concerns
Health concerns about a doctor