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Br J Ophthalmol 2004;88:310-311 doi:10.1136/bjo.2003.025239
  • Letter

Consent of the blind and visually impaired: a time to change practice

  1. G M Saleh
  1. Essex County Hospital, Lexden Road, Colchester CO3 3NB, UK; drgmsaleh@yahoo.co.uk
    • Accepted 12 May 2003

    It is a general legal and ethical principle that valid consent must be obtained before starting treatment or physical investigation of a patient. The validity of consent does not depend on the form in which it is given (verbal or written), rather it depends on it being given voluntarily by an appropriately informed person who has the capacity to consent to the intervention in question. Written consent merely serves as evidence of consent. There is no English statute setting out the general principles of consent, rather it is set by precedent or case law (“common law”). …

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