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Read the explanatory guidance
Consent guidance
Part 2: Making decisions about investigations and treatment
Making decisions
Consent guidance: Making decisions
Subsections
The scope of decisions (37-39)
Making decisions about potential future events (40)
Ensuring that decisions are voluntary (41-42)
Respecting a patient's decisions (43)
Discussing side effects, complications and other risks (para 28 - 36)
The scope of decisions (para 37 - 39)
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Read Good medical practice (2013)
Read the explanatory guidance
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0-18 years
Accountability in mental health teams
Acting as a witness in legal proceedings (2013)
Confidentiality: good practice in handling patient information (2017)
Confidentiality: disclosing information about serious communicable diseases (2017)
Confidentiality: disclosing information for education and training purposes (2017)
Confidentiality: disclosing information for employment, insurance and similar purposes (2017)
Confidentiality: patients' fitness to drive and reporting concerns to the DVLA or DVA (2017)
Confidentiality: reporting gunshot and knife wounds (2017)
Confidentiality: responding to criticism in the media (2017)
Consent guidance
Contents
How the guidance applies to you
Part 1: Principles
Part 2: Making decisions about investigations and treatment
Sharing information and discussing treatment options
Answering questions
Reasons for not sharing information
Sharing information
Involving families, carers and advocates
Obstacles to sharing information
Responsibility for seeking patients consent
Discussing side effects
Making decisions
The scope of decisions
Decisions about potential events
Ensuring that decisions are voluntary
Respecting a patient's decisions
Expressions of consent
Recording decisions
Reviewing decisions
Involving children in decisions
Advance care planning
Part 3: Capacity issues
Legal annex
Endnotes: Consent
Cosmetic interventions
Delegation and referral (2013)
Doctors' use of social media (2013)
Ending your professional relationship with a patient (2013)
End of life care
Financial and commercial arrangements and conflicts of interest (2013)
Intimate examinations and chaperones (2013)
Leadership and management for all doctors (2012)
Making and using visual and audio recordings of patients
Maintaining a professional boundary between you and your patient (2013)
Openness and honesty when things go wrong
Patients seeking advice or information about assistance to die
Personal beliefs and medical practice (2013)
Prescribing and managing medicines and devices (2013)
Protecting children and young people
Raising and acting on concerns about patient safety (2012)
Reporting criminal and regulatory proceedings
Research: Consent to research
Research: Good practice in research
Responsible consultants or clinicians
Sexual behaviour and your duty to report colleagues (2013)
Writing references (2012)
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