News & Research
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What is the global landscape of consent?
3 Mar 2025A new BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine review explores how informed consent practices vary worldwide and examines solutions for bridging these differences.
Digital consent could save the NHS money
10 Jan 2025New research published in PharmacoEconomics reveals how digital consent could deliver significant cost savings for NHS hospitals.
Can digital consent move the needle when it comes to SDM?
19 Aug 2022Read about the two new studies that have shown that patient perceptions of Shared Decision Making improve with the use of digital consent.
Errors seen in half of paper consent forms. It's time for digital consent.
20 May 2021Read a summary of the findings from a recent paper looking at digital consent in the British Journal of Surgery.
What Hippocrates didn’t tell us
2 Sep 2019We took a little time to look backwards and what we found was unexpected…
Conversations on consent
8 Jul 2019Consent is changing, and for the better, but we are still a long way from perfection.
How and why do we make decisions about treatment?
2 May 2019What I learnt from discussing the consent process with individuals from a number of different perspectives...
Obtaining consent for an operation
1 Sep 2017Here, in a piece written for the Student BMJ, read about the key components of a good consent process
Montgomery fallout
1 Feb 2017The Montgomery judgement brought significant change, but equally interesting has been how the courts have subsequently been applying these new principles...
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