J H Tingle ‘Do guidelines have legal implications?’
Arch Dis Child 2002;86:387–388
The legal implications of NICE guidance
http://www.forward-me.org.uk/Letters/Legal_context_nice_guidance.pdf
‘Guidelines in general practice: the new Tower of Babel’ Hibble et al BMJ 1998;317:862–3.
Professor of Cardiology John Hampton 2003: ‘Guidelines—for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men’
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/88be/52abb7babfbecc4c72af540db838f15b1762.pdf Clin Med. 2003; 3: 279–284.
Adsead v Tottle Lawtel 2007
Guidelines introduced at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) meeting in Munich September 2018:
https://www.escardio.org/Guidelines/Clinical-Practice-Guidelines/Guidelines-development
https://www.escardio.org/Guidelines/Clinical-Practice-Guidelines/Hypertrophic-Cardiomyopathy
GMC guidance for doctors in social media
https://www.gmc-uk.org/ethical-guidance/ethical-guidance-for-doctors/doctors-use-of-social-media
FOAM – Free Open Access Meducation – Medical education for anyone, anywhere, anytime.
Miscellaneous reading
https://www.acc.org/guidelines
https://www.themdu.com/guidance-and-advice/case-studies/must-doctors-comply-with-guidelines
https://www.gponline.com/medico-legal-legal-status-clinical-guidelines/article/1451396
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5942031/
https://www.bmj.com/content/suppl/2004/10/28/329.7473.1024.DC1
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5109754/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539423/
https://academic.oup.com/medlaw/article-abstract/14/3/321/948883?redirectedFrom=fulltext
https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/qhc/3/1/37.full.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/10140847/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5109754/
https://bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(17)32259-6/fulltext
https://www.gponline.com/medico-legal-legal-status-clinical-guidelines/article/1451396
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1464-410X.2009.08606.x