Standards of Healthcare and Respecting Children's Rights

GMC Today April 2005

Royal College of Physicians. Ethics in Practice, Working Party Report 2005 [www.rcplondon.ac.uk/pubs/ClinicalMedicine/index]

The Stationery Office [www.opsi.gov.uk/acts.htm]

DfES Change for Children [www.dfes.gov.uk/ISA/keepUpTodate/calendar.cfm]

Department of Health. Summary: Best Practice Guidance For Doctors And Other Health Professionals On The Provision Of Advice And Treatment To Young People Under 16 On Contraception, Sexual And Reproductive Health. [Gateway Ref. No. 3382. London: DoH, July 2004]

Gillick v West Norfolk & Wisbech Area Health Authority (1985) [3 All ER 402]

Re B Consent to treatment (2002) [2 All ER 449]

Cf. Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act, 2000, and Mental Capacity Act (2005) section 1.4: ‘A person is not to be treated as unable to make a decision merely because he makes an unwise decision’

Cf. Children Act (1989); United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)

Review ordered by Cabinet sub-committee for Children and Young People, Wales (2004) [http://www.wales.gov.uk/organicabinet/SubCmteeMeetings/children/index.htm]

Children don't Complain [http://www.childcomwales.org.uk]

GMC Guidance on problem doctors [http://www.gmc-uk.org/probdocs/default.htm]