This course includes the following e-learning sessions:

• Patient Consent
• Capacity and Difficult Consent
• Mental Capacity
• Mental Capacity Assessment
• The Mental Capacity Act

The Patient Consent session provides an outline of the general principles of consent and focuses on the types of consent to treatment. It examines what happens before the age of consent and what can be done when consent is refused. It also looks at consent in the case of people with learning difficulties, living wills and organ donation.

The Capacity and Difficult Consent session describes clinical scenarios involving patients with complex medical and ethical problems relating to consent, which clinicians will find challenging.

The Mental Capacity Act (MCA) protects the rights of vulnerable people and outlines the responsibilities of those who care for them. The sessions on Mental Capacity will consider the needs of vulnerable people and guidance for staff working with and assessing them.