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In healthcare, informed consent is a crucial process that involves thoroughly communicating medical treatment options to patients, including benefits, risks, potential side effects, and alternatives. This process enables patients to make well-informed decisions about their care, ensuring they understand the implications of their choices before consenting to or refusing treatment.
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  • 1Rehabilitation Medicine, NHS Lothian, Astley Ainslie Hospital, Edinburgh, UK edwin.jesudason@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk.

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Area of Science:

  • Medical Law
  • Psychiatry
  • Health Psychology

Background:

  • Parity of esteem aims to equalize mental and physical health valuation.
  • Disparities persist due to underfunding, stigma, and poorer physical health outcomes for those with mental illness.
  • Existing ethical and legal frameworks for justice and fairness are insufficient.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose leveraging informed consent obligations to improve mental health care integration.
  • To explore how inadequate disclosure of surgical mental health risks can lead to clinical negligence claims.
  • To advocate for multidisciplinary teams and integrative specialists to enhance patient consent processes.

Main Methods:

  • Legal analysis of informed consent duties in surgical contexts.
  • Argumentation based on potential clinical negligence claims for inadequate risk disclosure.
  • Proposal for integrating mental health specialists into surgical teams via prehabilitation.

Main Results:

  • Inadequate disclosure of mental health complications of surgery poses risks of clinical negligence claims for craft specialists.
  • Patients may claim improper or absent counseling regarding mental health risks.
  • Prudent approach involves supporting and funding integrative specialists within multidisciplinary teams.

Conclusions:

  • Relying on informed consent duties offers a novel pathway to improve mental health resource allocation and understanding.
  • Integrating specialists from rehabilitation medicine, liaison psychiatry, and health psychology into surgical teams is recommended.
  • This collaborative model, facilitated by processes like prehabilitation, can enhance patient consent and mental health care within physical health settings.