Apply for medical or dental consent

What is consent to medical or dental treatment?

Sometimes a doctor or dentist may believe that a patient is not able to give valid consent to treatment because they do not fully understand the treatment that is being proposed. In many of these cases, the doctor or dentist must obtain consent from someone else authorised to consent on their behalf. This is called substitute consent.
If there is a person responsible who can make decisions on behalf of the other person, they can give consent for the proposed treatment.
If there is no person responsible or they are not available to give consent, the medical or dental practitioner must apply to the Tribunal for substitute consent.
An application is only necessary if the treatment requires consent.

You can make an application by:

Speaking to the Tribunal's enquiry staff who will send you a form.
Printing out the Application for consent to medical or dental treatment from this website.

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