PRACTICE OF MEDICINE

The practice of medicine includes any of the following:

• signing any medical certificate required for statutory purposes, such as death,

• Prescribing medicines,

• Assessing, diagnosing, treating, reporting or giving advice in a medical capacity, using the knowledge, skills, attitudes and competence wherever there could be an issue of public safety.

‘Practice’ in this context goes wider than clinical medicine to include teaching, research, medical or health management, in hospitals, clinics, general practices and community and institutional contexts, whether paid or voluntary.