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be INFOrMED
Clinical negligence claims are increasing at 25% per year.
Can YOU afford NOT to be INFOrMED?
EIDO Healthcare is delighted to present be INFOrMED - the UK's first web-based training resource for health professionals on the medico-legal principles of consent to treatment. be INFOrMED is designed to reduce the risk of litigation by promoting best practice in the area of informed consent.
- Regularly updated
- Unlimited users within the licensing hospital
- User-tracking function to see who has used the resource
- Four easy to navigate modules
- Interactive self-test questions designed to check understanding
- Practical problem scenarios with suggested answers
- Recommended further reading sections
- Interactive glossary of medico-legal terms
be INFOrMED has been approved by the RCN Accreditation Unit until 8 June 2007.
Over 50 NHS hospitals have licensed be INFOrMED.
Developed in full collaboration by:
- EIDO Healthcare - the UK leader in products and services designed to improve the informed consent process
- Professor Vivienne Harpwood, internationally published specialist on the subject of clinical negligence and Director of the Centre for Medico Legal Studies at Cardiff Law School
Regularly updated, providing comprehensive information about:
- the definition of consent in UK law
- current case law surrounding consent
- the consequences for individuals not obtaining consent
- the treatment of adults lacking capacity
- the treatment of minors
- patient refusal of treatment
- consent to research and innovative treatments
- end of life decision making
Learning outcomes
On completing the course, each student should be able to:
- state the legal definition of 'consent' in the context of medical treatment
- describe the basic rules of law applicable to obtaining consent to the provision of medical treatment to competent patients
- describe the basic rules of law applicable to patients who are permanently or temporarily incompetent to give consent
- describe what is meant by 'capacity' in law to consent to medical treatment
- explain what is meant by 'voluntariness' in the context of consent to medical treatment
- describe the practical and ethical bases for seeking consent from patients. Explain the situations in which criminal offences may be relevant when treatment is given without the knowledge or consent of the patient
- explain the professional regulatory rules applicable to consent to treatment
- describe the torts of assault, battery and negligence as applicable in the law relating to consent
- explain the law concerning the provision of information to patients prior to obtaining consent
- explain briefly the law governing information provision prior to obtaining consent to treatment in certain jurisdictions outside the UK, and explain how far this differs from UK law
- describe the rules of law that apply and the practical steps that should be taken when competent patients refuse medical treatment
- describe the rules of law that apply and the practical steps that should be taken when incompetent patients refuse medical treatment
- explain the way in which the law deals with advance directives made by patients about their treatment
- explain the legal requirements in relation to consent to research and innovative treatment
- identify and describe the human rights issues applicable to the law relating to consent to and refusal of medical treatment
- apply the relevant legal rules that apply in a range of problem scenarios involving consent to treatment issues
