Receiving Consent

Trigger warning - COVID, dealing with emotions Picture Credit- Jeremy Ricketts, Unsplash Having grown up by the sea, I really like seeing a new clean beach early every morning. One that has been visited by the tide as we have slept. One that stretches perfectly like a freshly swiped Etch-a-sketch; no footprints, no horse shoe… Continue reading Ebenezer

Photo by Hal Gatewood on Unsplash Attaching the term "therapeutic" to research may create a "therapeutic misconception," in which participants construe the protocol design as therapy directed at the individual rather than as research designed to generate generalizable knowledge" "Principles of Biomedical Ethics" Seventh Edition 2013- Tom L Beauchamp and James F Childress The ethical… Continue reading The Therapeutic Misconception

Photo by Lode Lagrainge on Unsplash I sit here writing a year on. A year on from so much but, mainly, from grief; from bravery; from stoicism and resolve. It's not really clear cut as to whom these attributes belong but they were all there in the ICU day after day after day. Patients whose… Continue reading It all came flooding back…

It is a cardinal principle of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (‘MCA’) that those responsible, including doctors, care workers, family and the court, must be fastidious to evaluate capacity on an issue-specific basis.Hayden, J QJ v A Local Authority & An NHS Trust [2020] EWCOP 7 Most research nurses will have undertaken "Informed Consent" training.… Continue reading The Presumption of Capacity