Circular details
| Title: | Guidelines for Health Practitioners: Patient Consent to Treatment and Disclosure of Material Risks | |||||
| Document ID: | Operational Circular OP 1347/00 | |||||
| Date of issue: | Thursday, 26 October 2000 | |||||
| Status: | NO LONGER APPLICABLE | |||||
| File number(s): | 00-01868 | |||||
| Description: | The following guidelines with respect to patient consent to treatment and disclosure of material risk have been prepared for all public hospitals and health services in Western Australia.These guidelines reflect good practice for all health practitioners and are intended to clarify the legal obligations of individual members of staff and the rights of patients in obtaining properly informed consent to treatment. Where there is uncertainty about a patient’s capacity to consent to treatment, the treating health practitioner should seek advice from the hospital or health service executive. | |||||
| Category: | Legal | |||||
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This circular last updated: Thursday, 26 October 2000 at 12:00am