Appendix 3 - Required reading

Relevant GMC guidance

  • www.gmc-uk.org
  • Consent: Patients and Doctors Making Decisions Together (June 2008)
  • 0–18 Years: Guidance for All Doctors (October 2007)
  • Good Medical Practice (2006)
  • Research: The Role and Responsibilities of Doctors (February 2002)
  • Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Prolonging Treatments: Good Practice in Decision-Making (2002)

Department of Health publications

  • Good Practice in Consent Implementation Guide: Consent to Examination or Treatment (November 2001)
  • Seeking Consent: Working with People with Learning Disabilities (November 2001)
  • Seeking Consent: Working with Older People (November 2001)
  • Reference Guide to Consent for Examination or Treatment (2nd edition) (August 2009)
  • Seeking Consent: Working with Children (January 2001)
  • Seeking Consent: Working with People in Prison (July 2002)

Nothern Ireland

  • Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Good Practice in Consent: Consent for Examination, Treatment or Care (March 2003)

Scotland

  • A Good Practice Guide on Consent for Health Professionals in NHS Scotland (June 2006)

Government publications

England and Wales

Scotland

  • www.scotland.gov.uk
  • Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000: Code of Practice (2002)
  • Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000: Workbook and Guidance for Social and Healthcare Staff: Pack 2.
  • Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000: Communication and Assessing Capacity: A Guide for Social Work and Healthcare Staff (2007) Published by the Civil and International Justice Directorate.

BMA guidance

  • www.bma.org.uk
  • Consent Toolkit, third edition (August 2007)
  • Advance Decisions and Proxy Decision-Making in Medical Treatment and Research (June 2007)
  • Medical Treatment for Adults with Incapacity: Guidance on Ethical and Medico-Legal Issues in Scotland, second edition (October 2002)
  • The Mental Capacity Act 2005 – Guidance for Health Professionals (April 2007)

Books

  • English, Veronica, Assessment of Mental Capacity: Guidance for Doctors and Lawyers, second revised edition, (April 2004) BMJ Books
  • BMA Ethics Department, Medical Ethics Today: Its Practice and Philosophy (2003) BMJ Books
  • Bartlett, Peter, Blackstone's Guide to the Mental Capacity Act 2005, 2nd Revised edition (February 2008) Oxford University Press.

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