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Consent guidance
Part 2: Making decisions about investigations & 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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0-18 years
Accountability in Multi-disciplinary and Multi-Agency Mental Health Teams
Taking up and ending appointments
Making and using visual and audio recordings of patients
Confidentiality
Conflicts of interest
Consent guidance
Contents
How the guidance applies to you
Part 1: Principles
Part 2: Making decisions about investigations & 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
Acting as an expert witness
Good Medical Practice - pandemic influenza
Maintaining boundaries
Management for Doctors
Personal beliefs and medical practice
Good practice in prescribing medicines
Raising concerns about patient safety
Writing references
Reporting criminal and regulatory proceedings within and outside the UK
Research: The role and responsibility of doctors
Withholding and withdrawing
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