United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 83307
Medical Treatments
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29 November 2021
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14 December 2021 · Answer
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14 December 2021
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that patients are fully informed about the risks of procedures involving implanted materials and provide fully informed consent to those procedures.
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29 November 2021
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that patients are fully informed about the risks of procedures involving implanted materials and provide fully informed consent to those procedures.
Source: Commons
14 December 2021
Answer
The General Medical Council’s revised guidance ‘Decision making and consent’ came into effect in November 2020. The guidance specifies that doctors must give patients the information, time and support needed to make an informed decision about their treatm...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-11-29/83307
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1383041
- uk · wq-1383041 · source updated 14 December 2021