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Communication and consent / Guidance

Using patient testimonials

Osteopaths, like other healthcare professionals, often make use of patient testimonials in their marketing literature and on their websites. Sometimes, osteopaths with high profile patients such as performers or athletes, are featured in articles about their work with such patients. …

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Communication Communication and consent

“There are no set scripts and no set patients”

Steven Bettles, GOsC Policy Manager, explains why effective communication with patients about risks is a clinical decision, rather than just a regulatory requirement.

There is a perception amongst some osteopaths that effective communication with patients is a regulatory requirement imposed …

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Communication and consent Consent / Guidance

Consent guidance – Royal College of Surgeons

The Royal College of Surgeons has developed guidance on consent that sets out the principles for working with patients through a process of supported decision-making, and a series of podcasts that illustrate those principles in practice.

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Communication and consent Consent

The law on consent – what’s new?

Deborah Smith

Deborah Smith, osteopath and GOsC Council member, gives her take on developments …

The focus of the law on consent changed in 2015 as a result of a landmark legal decision.

The change to consent law is consistent with the …

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Communication and consent / Guidance

Communication – GOsC resources

We have produced some resources aimed at exploring patients’ expectations of osteopathic care, and the extent to which these were being met. Elements of communication underpin many of these expectations, which can be seen in both the full report and the summary version.

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Communication and consent / Guidance

Communicating benefit and risk – General Medical Council

The General Medical Council  guidance on consent is extensive, and broken down on their website into different sections, including one on explaining side effects, complications and other risks and an overview of consent and the resources available to provide support in this respect.

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