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Consent and Children - Links and references to relevant articles

BMA
Consent, rights and choices in health care for children and
young people. December 2000 This book from the British Medical
Association offers comprehensive ...
www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/Consentchildren

Department of Health
Seeking consent: working with children. This DH booklet
provides guidance to healthcare practitioners on how to seek
consent from children in their care. ...
www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidance/HealthAndSocialCare
Topics/Consent/ConsentGeneralInformation/fs/en

RCN
Consent and confidentiality: people under 18 - briefing sheet
Briefing sheets give you access to the ... Directory of
community children's nursing services ...
www2.rcn.org.uk/cyp/resources/a-z_of_resources/consent

BMJ
The meaning of valid proxy consent for children has recently
been the subject of an important debate between Richard
McCormick and Paul Ramsey on the ethics ...
jme.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/4/3/138

Dental Care
To What Extent are Children Involved in Consent to Dental Care?
In this issue of the BDJ, the paper by Adewumi et al. on consent
and children raises important issues for any practitioner involved
in any aspect of the ...
www.nature.com/bdj/journal/v191/n5/full/4801154a.html

Additional References

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Alderson P, Montgomery J. Health care choices: making decisions
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Alderson P. Choosing for children: parents' consent to surgery.
Oxford: Oxford University Press , 1990
Alderson P. Children's consent to surgery. Buckingham: Open University Press , 1993.
Age of Legal Capacity (Scotland) Act, 1991:section 2(4).

Declaration of Helsinki. In: World Medical Association handbook of
declarations. Ferney Voltaire: World Medical Association , 1989
Faden R, Childress T. A history and theory of informed consent.
New York: Oxford University Press , 1986.
 Gillick v West Norfolk & Wisbech AHA [1985] 3 All ER
402, 421, 423

Gillon R. Philosophical medical ethics. Chichester: Wiley , 1994.

Kennedy I. Treat me right. Oxford: Clarendon , 1988.

Montgomery J. Health care law. Oxford: Oxford University Press , 1997.