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Post date: 04/07/2017 | Time to read article: 1 minsThe information within this article was correct at the time of publishing. Last updated 18/05/2020
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- British Medical Association –
- Confidentiality and Disclosure of Health Information Tool Kit (2008)
- Consent Tool Kit – 3rd edition (2007)
- Evidence-based Prescribing (2007)
- Miscellaneous information about Cremation
- British National Formulary
- Department of Health –
- NHS Caldicott Guardians
- General Medical Council guidance –
- Consent: Patients and Doctors Making Decisions Together (2008)
- Confidentiality guidance
- 0–18 Years: Guidance for All Doctors
- Good Practice in Prescribing Medicines (2006)
- Good Medical Practice (2006)
- Ministry of Justice – Information about coroners and the reforms to the coronial system
- MPS factsheets –
- Consent – The Basics
- Consent – Children and Young People
- Confidentiality – General Principles
- Confidentiality: Disclosures relating to patients unable to consent
- Confidentiality – Disclosures without consent
- Safe prescribing
- Reporting deaths to the coroner
- MPS booklets –
- Sokol, D; Bergson, G, Medical Ethics and Law – Surviving on the Wards and
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