title: Obtaining informed consent to treatment: new legal dimensions.
abstract: John Tingle, Reader in Health Law at Nottingham Trent University, discusses the guidance on consent to treatment issued by the Royal College of Surgeons, which takes the implications of a landmark legal case into account.
authors.affiliation: Reader in Health Law at Nottingham Trent University.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tingle
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D030881:Disclosure / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D026706:Paternalism; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012306:Risk; D006113:United Kingdom