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Consent key documents
Consent to Treatment forms and guidance.
Guidance for patients
- Consent - what you have a right to expect: a guide for adults
- Consent: A guide for children and young people
- Consent: A guide for people with learning disabilities
- Consent - what you have a right to expect: a guide for parents
- Consent - what you have a right to expect: a guide for relatives and carers
- Reference guide to consent for examination or treatment
Guidance for clinicians
- HSC 2001/023: Good practice in consent: achieving the NHS Plan commitment to patient-centred consent practice
- Good practice in consent implementation guide: consent to examination or treatment
- Download model consent policy in Rich Text Format (RTF, 498K)
- Reference guide to consent for examination or treatment, second edition 2009
- Seeking consent: working with children
- Seeking consent: working with older people
- Seeking consent: working with people in prison
- Seeking consent: working with people with learning disabilities
- Consent: what you have a right to expect - taking blood specimens from those involved in road traffic accidents to test for levels of alcohol or drugs
- Research Governance Framework for health and social care
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