Hospital doctors & specialists

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
• Testing donors for HIV antibodies - 13 November 2002
• Consent for blood test - 13 November 2002
• Should I warn of wisdom tooth extraction risk? - 23 October 2002
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Advice articles

• The Mental Capacity Act 2005 - 20 February 2008
• Winning ways with sports medicine - 1 December 2007
• The Mental Capacity Act – questions - 7 November 2007
• GMC publishes new guidance on treating under 18s - 23 October 2007
• Mental Capacity Act supersedes GMC guidance - 8 October 2007
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Case histories

• Patient request for cessation of ventilation - 15 November 2004
• 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

• Ring of confidence - 1 December 2007
• Chaperones - 1 December 2007
• Wanting to die? - 19 December 2006
• Advance refusal of an epidural - 13 November 2002
• Should GP's arrange paternity testing? - 1 October 2000
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