Trust Board Febuary 2010 - Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals

SWBTB (2/10) 037 (a)
• They only take consent for a procedure which they are competent to perform or for which
they have had specific training in taking consent
• They make the patient aware of the implications of the treatment including pre-peri-and
post-operative effects and consequences.
• They give the patient adequate literature describing the procedure, its benefits and risks any
alternatives.
• They make an appropriate record of the consent on the correct consent forms and/or in the
patient record.
• The patient has proper access to the delegating clinician so that any problems or queries
which cannot be answered by the person explaining the treatment can be easily and
speedily addressed.
The healthcare professional who has delegated consent approval may only take consent for those
procedures/treatments which they have been trained and registered for at this Trust.
5.6 Medical Staffing
The Medical Staffing Department is responsible for ensuring all new junior doctors are provided with
local induction documentation to allow assessment of delegated consent competency to be
undertaken
The Head of Medical Staffing will follow up instances where Basic Skills Competency Forms have not
been returned.
5.7 Education Centres
The Education Centres are responsible for:
Collecting completed local induction consent competency documents in a timely way
Escalating where documentation is not received to ClinicalDirectors and to the Head of Medical
Staffing
Ensuring details of competency are logged and kept up to date
Ensuring reports of competency provided to directorates/divisions and Clinical Effectiveness as
required
5.8 Assistant Director of Nursing responsible for Quality
The Assistant Director of Nursing responsible for Quality will ensure an up to date register (appendix
G3) of all healthcare professionals who are not medically trained but who take consent, together
with details of their training, is maintained and make this available for audit/review as required.
6 Documentation (Process for recording consent)
For significant procedures, it is essential for health professionals to document clearly both a patient’s
agreement to the intervention and the discussions which led up to that agreement. This may be done
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