Enthusiastic consent should be a baseline expectation, not an aspiration.
Consent should be requested on a regular basis.
He added: "I was not asked whether consent should be given".
Dr. Sulmasy, at St . Vincents, said informed consent should be the rule.
What kind of notice and consent should be required before installation of such software is permitted?
The report recommended: "Obtaining parents' consent should be seen as a process, and not just a signing of a form.
The draft NPPF directly invites authorities to identify the circumstances in which planning consent should be refused.
At a minimum, the process of obtaining consent should be separated from the process of obtaining care.
GPs and the British Medical Association have protested that explicit consent should be sought from each patient.
That purpose was suitably to provide for adjudication in such cases if consent should be given but not otherwise.
Likewise, the American Medical Association said, "Valid consent should be obtained before personally identifiable health information is used for any purpose".
