Dr Penny Sheehan

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Talking O&G - a RANZCOG Podcast · E24. Recommendations for Embedding Informed Consent in Clinical Practice (audio) · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

Lastly, I'll just add that patients can withdraw consent at any time.

Now that can be a really complex situation.

But it is worth recalling.

And even when you're I think we've all been there where we're we're um task focused and we're so close to completing our

procedure whatever it might be, a force substantial birth or um uh a minor Ghani procedure or suturing um and suddenly the patient says stop no and it can be so hard to to take that back and say no no just another couple of minutes and we'll all be finished.

But if the patient withdraws her consent, she withdraws her consent.

So again from the guideline, the need to be to obtain conformed informed consent um can be required at different stages over the course of a treatment pathway and even in different stages of a consultation or examination.

So of course the person can give consent in writing.

Um or verbal consent.

All consent can be implied, but I think with imp implied consent, um, my own thought is that you should always just stop and check for um ongoing implied consent.

So someone may

um appear to consent for a for a um examination, for example, but it's always wise to stop at various critical points through the examination and say, Are you happy that we continue?

The most appropriate appropriate form of consent depends on the degree of risk and complexity of treatment, um, of course.

So, you know, we usually ask verbal consent for just an examination, whereas um uh clearly for any kind of procedure,

We want written consent.

Clinicians have a responsibility to know and understand the legal obligations of the state in which they are practicing.

And we talked before about the assessment of legal capacity, which is also a critical part of obtaining consent.

Then there's also the issue of what happens when a person has been assessed as not being able to give consent.

And their clinicians

have a responsibility to understand um what they should do and what steps can be taken and what substitute decision makers are available to them.

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