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Treatment: Life after Montgomery
Sophie Beesley highlights the development of the ‘reasonable patient’ in recent cases concerning patient consent ‘Patients should not be bombarded with information, but helped to understand what matters or is likely to matter to them as individuals, beyond the pure percentages of risk. Dialogue is key.’ Consent to medical treatment is only valid if it …
Cases Referenced
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- A v East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust [2015] EWHC 1038 (QB)
- Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 WLR 582
- Connolly v Croydon Health Services NHS Trust [2015] EWHC 1339 (QB)
- Hamilton v Birmingham Regional Hospital Board [1969] 2 BMJ 456
- Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2010] CSOH 104; [2015] UKSC 11
- Pearce v United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust [1998] EWCA Civ 865
- Re F (mental patient: sterilisation); F v West Berkshire Health Authority [1991] UKHL 1
- Shaw v Kovac [2015] EWHC 3335 (QB); [2017] EWCA Civ 1028
- Sidaway v Board of Governors of the Bethlem Royal Hospital [1985] UKHL 1
- Spencer v Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust [2015] EWHC 1058 (QB)
- Tasmin v Barts Health NHS Trust [2015] EWHC 3135 (QB)