UNITED KINGDOM: Medical Practitioners, Adolescents and Informed Consent

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This Briefing Paper reports on a Nuffield Foundation funded project which demonstrates that legal ambiguity surrounding child consent adversely affects clinicians, young people and their families. The reports make law reform proposals designed to align the law in England and Wales with the UNCRC. It also incorporates a comparative element, considering reforms and reform proposals in other countries.

A full report and a short briefing paper (attached) can be accessed at http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/adolescents-and-informed-consent

Owner: Dr. Emma Cave, Senior Lecturer in Lawpdf: http://www.crin.org/docs/Young people who refuse life sustaining treatment.pdf

Articles: 
Article 2: Non-discrimination
Article 3: Best interests of the child
Article 4: Implementation of rights
Article 5: Parental guidance and the childs evolving capacities
Article 6: Survival and development
Article 8: Preservation of identity
Article 12: The childs opinion
Article 16: Protection of privacy
Article 17: Access to appropriate information
Article 18: Parental responsibilities
Article 24: Health and health services
Article 41: Respect for higher standards
Articles 42-54: Implementation and monitoring
Article 1: Definition of a child
Organisation: 
University of Leeds
Attachment Link: 
http://www.crin.org/docs/Young people who refuse life sustaining treatment.pdf
Web: 
http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/adolescents-and-informed-consent
Link : 
http://www.crin.org/docs/Young%20people%20who%20refuse%20life%20sustaining%20treatment.pdf

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