The words to use
- Inducement
- A gift or favour offered to influence care, such as a present with a request to be seen first. Whatever its value, it must be refused.
- Section 170 offence
- Under the Data Protection Act 2018, knowingly or recklessly obtaining or disclosing personal data without the controller's consent. It covers looking as well as telling; the penalty is a fine.
- Close personal relationship
- The GMC's phrase for the people, such as family and close friends, whom doctors must wherever possible avoid treating.
- Make it visible
- The habit behind most right answers: decline or declare gifts, declare AI use, record decisions and tell your supervisor, rather than keeping a private judgement private.
