GPs & primary care professionals

Consent to treatment

Competent adult patients have a fundamental right to give or to withhold consent to treatment. This area of the site contains comprehensive and up to date information about consent and includes guidance on specific issues such as treating children and adults who may lack the capacity to consent.

Questions and answers

• Intimate search of a prisoner - 13 November 2002
• Consent for a stomach washout - 13 November 2002
• Consent for blood test - 13 November 2002
• Consent for GP or GDP procedures - 23 October 2002
• Consent for video and photographs - 23 October 2002
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Advice articles

• New Medical Council guidance on consent - 28 April 2009
• Childhood Vaccines - 19 November 2008
• The Mental Capacity Act 2005 - 20 February 2008
• Winning ways with sports medicine - 1 December 2007
• The Mental Capacity Act - questions - 7 November 2007
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Case histories

• Patient request for cessation of ventilation - 15 November 2006
• Failed vasectomy - 1 October 2003
• Compensatory hyperhidrosis after sympathectomy - 1 March 2003
• Same day radial keratotomy - 1 January 2002
• Refusal to pay - 1 January 2002
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Advice calls

• Capacity - an ethical dilemma - 31 January 2008
• Ring of confidence - 1 December 2007
• Chaperones - 1 December 2007
• Wanting to die? - 19 December 2006
• Capacity and withholding consent - 1 May 2005
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