“GET BOOSTED NOW Every adult needs a COVID-19 booster vaccine to protect against Omicron. Get your COVID-19 vaccine or booster. See NHS website for details” On Boxing Day, this wording appears to have been sent as an SMS in effect to every mobile telephone number in the UK. The rel...
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Summary of: do parents of children with caries choose to opt out of positive consent dental surveys in Wales? Background Recently, positive consent has been required for dental surveys in some parts of the UK. Concerns have been raised that when positive consent is used participation is reduced...
Using NHS Patient Data for Research Without Consent. The article discusses the study which examines the use of patient records from the British National Health Service for research purposes. It notes that Wel... Brown,Ian,Lindsey,... - 《Law Innovation & Technology》 被引量: 26发表: 2010年...
Debate continues for the reasons behind this, but inadequate consent practices are thought to play a role. The furore resulting from organ retention scandals at Bristol Royal Infirmary and The Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital led to widespread soul searching in the medical profession, and a ...
Consultation over children's heart surgery was unfair to Royal Brompton, judge rules. A consultation exercise that proposed closing the children's heart surgery unit at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London has been quashed by the High Court in London, in a landmark ruling. The NHS's Joint ...
especially given by somebody in authority. Children under 16 cannot give consent to medical treatment. Literally that means the patient will be taught in medical science and he will reach a level of knowledge allowing him to decide if the proposed therapy is right and safe for himself. But wha...
1 The aim of this article is to provide a framework on how to approach consent for anaesthesia in the adult population. Consent issues in children and young adults have been covered in other articles within this journal. Specific consent issues that can arise in the obstetric population are ...
(3) The rate of consent to use postmortem tissue for any purpose was much lower. (4) In the United Kingdom pathology laboratories in the NHS examine and subsequently store over 3 million tissue specimens each year. Specimens from living patients vastly outnumber autopsy specimens, and the ...
Paul makes a similar point forcefully in response to the objection that for one of her central examples, having one’s first child, the agent can do their research through reading, looking after others’ children, etc., and thereby resolve the problem: You might think that having a ...