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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
- End–of–life care – new NICE Quality Standard - 10 January 2012
- A matter of life and death - 5 October 2011
- Communicating with relatives of dying patients - 22 March 2011
- Bariatric surgery claims - 15 December 2010
- End of life decisions - 6 December 2010
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Case histories
- A witness to fact - 21 December 2010
- Text warning - 21 December 2010
- Must doctors comply with guidelines? - 21 December 2010
- Perforation of the uterus - 20 December 2010
- A dying wish - 17 December 2010
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Advice calls
- Advice line dilemmas – HIV status - 6 December 2010
- Ring of confidence - 1 December 2007
- Chaperones - 1 December 2007
- Wanting to die? - 19 December 2006
- Advance refusal of an epidural - 13 November 2002
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