Self-test questions

This section is designed to help you to discover how much information you have absorbed from this module.

2.1 Doctors have a legal obligation, when seeking consent from patients, to observe the principles set out in the European Convention on Human Rights.

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2.2 All adults are presumed to have capacity to consent to their medical treatment.

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2.3 There is a presumption that a person who is a patient under the Mental Health Act 1983 lacks capacity to consent.

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2.4 If a patient lacks capacity the next of kin can consent on his or her behalf.

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2.5 If a patient is brought into hospital in an unconscious state it is lawful to treat him or her without consent in an emergency.

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2.6 It amounts to the tort of trespass to the person to insert suppositories into a patient who is anaesthetised whose consent to the particular procedure was not sought before the anaesthetic, though consent to pain relief in general was given.

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2.7 It is lawful to discuss with his or her relatives the treatment of a person who is unconscious and who has not consented to this.

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2.8 It is always necessary to seek a declaration from the court before carrying out a non-therapeutic sterilisation on an incompetent adult patient.

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2.9 There is no specific age at which a child becomes competent to consent to medical treatment.

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2.10 There is no need to answer truthfully all questions asked by children about their treatment.

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2.11 It is permissible to discuss with the parents of a Gillick competent child any aspect of that child's treatment.

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2.12 Elderly people whose competence is fluctuating are unable to give consent to treatment at any time and can be treated without consent.

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