Abstract
Introduction: The Ayling Report recommended organisations develop chaperone policies and make them available to patients. A Postgraduate Medical Journal publication (August 2010) revealed that 43.5% of 92 trusts surveyed had no chaperone policy in place and only half of these planned to implement one. The General Medical Council addresses the importance of offering an impartial chaperone for intimate examinations (Maintaining Boundaries- Guidance for Doctors 2006). The majority of doctors would offer a chaperone to patients undergoing breast examination. However recording of such chaperones may be less robust. If complaints are made against doctors it may be difficult to defend if there is no evidence of the presence of a chaperone.
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