This video clip (right) may help a new starter develop confidence in applying the principles discussed within both face to face GCP and Research Practitioner Essentials.
If you're preparing to seek consent for the first time, why not download this NIHR consent workbook below and use it as a revision aid?
It's from a course that's no longer delivered but the content is still relevant and gives "food for thought".
Most of the weblinks are now no longer working too - if you wish to find a particular reference or an alternative, please contact the NW Research Workforce Team
Please also make sure you've read the latest SOP for consent in your Organisation and taken on board any instructions you are given.
Consent: patients and doctors making decisions together — This guidance for doctors sets out the principles on which good clinical decisions should be based. It expands on Good medical practice, which says doctors must be satisfied that they have consent (or other valid authority) before carrying out any examination or investigation providing treatment or involving patients in teaching or research.
HRA Applying a proportionate approach to the process of seeking consent — HRA recent guidance on proportionate consent
Informed consent in CTIMPs.pdf — HRA paper on consent in CTIMPs with particular focus on children & incapacitated adults