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Question 641
Clinical Management → Clinical Practice
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Sterilisation in a woman lacking capacity
Question Stem
A young woman lacks capacity and her parents request sterilisation because they believe she would be unable to rear a child. who must make the decision?
Options
A
Her parents
B
Her usual carer
C
The Court
D
A single consultant using consent form 4
E
The Trust risk-management committee
Explanation
Removal of fertility in this situation as extremely serious and states that the decision must come from the Court. It would be illegal for a health professional to use consent form 4 for this sterilisation decision.
Option Validity
A) parents cannot authorise sterilisation for a woman who lacks capacity.
B) A carer cannot provide the required authority for this serious decision.
D) consent form 4 must not be used for sterilisation in the example of a young woman lacking capacity.
E) this serious decision to the Court, not to a Trust risk-management committee.
Further Reading
Saxena MRCOG-1 Basic Sciences — Principles of Clinical Practice, printed p. 4.