Judges overrule NHS trust in landmark consent case Children as young as 10 had been allowed to consent to experimental puberty-suppressing treatment An English NHS trust’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) had been prescribing puberty blockers to children as young as 10 suffering from gender dysphoria, a condition where persons experience distress because of a …
Local Authorities can vaccinate children in care without parental consent – UK Court of Appeal An appeal court judgment handed down on 22nd May 2020 is going to raise a lot of concern and social media attention among parents concerned with having their parental rights eroded. However, as Consent lays out below, very little has …
Re H (A Child)(Parental Responsibility: Vaccination) Read More »
Another parental dispute regarding vaccinations. Courts respect the views of parents but have to make a decision in the best interest of the child. This judgment shows that a parent does not gain anything by submitting as their witness statement an extensive report with reference and links to research papers, articles, statistics and similar, as …
Cases concerning parental rights – European Court of Human Rights
Case of Alfie Evans, the boy whose parents fought unsuccessfully to have him transferred to Italy before life support was turned off.
Relates to immunisation dispute between parents rather than involving a healthcare professional.
Relates to dispute between parents rather than involving healthcare professionals
The case of Ashya King, whose parents fled with him to Spain in an attempt to secure their preferred treatment option.
In order to obtain valid consent from a patient, a doctor needs to disclose material risk and reasonable alternatives. What’s new is that a doctor needs to decide what information the patient would find significant rather than other doctors.
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