Consent

Question 1

Can consent be withdrawn?

Answer 1

Yes, at any time

Question 2

What charges might be brought against someone who breaks the laws of consent?

Answer 2

Battery

Negligence

Question 3

What is the GMC guidance on patients refusing consent?

Answer 3

A competent adult patient can refuse any treatment or investigation, but cannot demand it

Question 4

What is the GMC guidance on receiving consent?

Answer 4

A competent adult patient must in advance agree to any treatment or investigation
Consent can be withdrawn at any time

Question 5

What is the GMC guidance on bias, stereotyping or discrimination with regards to capacity for consent?

Answer 5

You must not assume that a patient lacks capacity to make a decision solely because of their age, disability, appearance, medical condition (including mental health), their beliefs, their apparent inability to communicate, or the fact that they make a decision that you disagree with

Question 6

What are the three requirements for valid consent?

Answer 6

Capacity
Information
Volutariness

Question 7

What are the three requirements for valid consent?

Answer 7

Capacity
Information (enough information given to the patient)
Volutariness

Question 8

When can treatment be given without patient’s consent?

Answer 8

If the treatment is immediately necessary to save a patient’s life or to prevent a serious deterioration

Question 9

Which GMC guidance is in place to help decide what treatment to give in an emergency situation i.e. without patient’s consent?

Answer 9

The treatment must be the least restrictive of the patient’s future choices

Question 10

Who has parental responsibility over a child/their consent?

Answer 10

Births registered from 4 May 2006 in Scotland, PR rests with both parents, if they are named on the birth certificate, whether married or not
Births registered before 4 May 2006, father automatically has PR only if he was married to the mother

Question 11

How does a father of a child registered before May 2006 gain parental responsibility (if he was unmarried to the mother)?

Answer 11

Needs a Parental Responsibility agreement/order

Step-parents and guardians can also obtain PR in this way

Question 12

How is parental responsibility lost?

Answer 12

Giving a child up for adoption

Question 13

Who has parental responsibility for a child under a care order?

Answer 13

The local authority and the parents