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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
- Consent for a stomach washout
- Consent for blood test
- Consent for GP or GDP procedures
- Consent for video and photographs
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Advice articles
- The Mental Capacity Act 2005
- Winning ways with sports medicine
- The Mental Capacity Act – questions
- GMC publishes new guidance on treating under 18s
- Mental Capacity Act supersedes GMC guidance
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Case histories
- Patient request for cessation of ventilation
- Failed vasectomy
- Compensatory hyperhidrosis after sympathectomy
- Same day radial keratotomy
- Refusal to pay
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