Effective Consent Practice: Implementing the new duty to explain risks to patients

This conference will include extended legal and practical updates on the new duty to explain risks to patients and what the supreme court judgement means for your practice and service. Understanding decision making within the consent process and individualising consent and communication of risk capacity. It will cover consent and legal issues surrounding children and older people and vulnerable adults and pregnant women and people will mental illness or learning disabilities. Consent in a nurse led service and consent and refusal of treatment. The conference will also feature an extended role play session on patient centred consent demonstrating how the new principles can be embedded into robust consent practice.