House rules

Our blog is about medical professionalism and our work as the UK’s independent regulator for doctors. It is managed by our press office and will feature articles from our staff and guest authors. You can contact the team at press@gmc-uk.org.

Comments

We’d really like to hear what you think of the issues raised on this blog. But comments need to be appropriate and respectful to other readers, so we do have a few house rules.

We welcome all comments which are relevant to the article you are commenting on. However, we ask you to bear in mind that all posts are published at our discretion. In particular, we reserve the right to reject posts that include:

  • private information about individuals or organisations
  • abusive, hateful or discriminatory comments, content or links
  • insensitive, inappropriate or upsetting comments, content or links
  • allegations, and defamatory or insulting comments about named individuals or organisations
  • references to specific fitness to practise investigations, ongoing hearings or litigation, and any fitness to practise matters heard in private
  • anything which infringes or encourages infringement of the law, including the intellectual property or privacy rights of others
  • adverts or promotional material
  • comments that appear to be part of a concerted campaign or lobbying effort
  • comments from anonymous individuals
  • comments, content or links which are unrelated to the blog post.

By posting comments on this blog, you agree to abide by these house rules.

Our press office team will review all comments before publication and can block a comment, or blacklist a user for serious infringement of our house rules.