Compliance · 7 min read

What a doctor can and cannot say in an advertisement

What a doctor can and cannot say in an advertisement

A working checklist for keeping campaigns persuasive without crossing BMDC guidance on claims, comparisons and testimonials.

Most compliance trouble in healthcare marketing

Describe the service, not the outcome.

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"Same-day echocardiography, reported by a consultant cardiologist"

is verifiable. "Best heart treatment in Dhaka" is not, and it is the kind of line that invites a complaint from a competitor rather than an enquiry from a patient.

Keep three files for every campaign: the claim, the source behind it, and the name of the doctor who signed it off. When a question arrives months later, that folder is the whole defence.