Recurring concern

Inadequate informed-consent processes for medical treatment

First to latest report 1 Jul 2014 — 28 Dec 2025

Reports that mention this concern
31
Times this concern has been raised
37
Stated actions linked to this concern
56

What this concern includes

Includes failures of medical-treatment consent processes, including initiation, information about material risks, time for consideration, consistency of procedure, assessment of consent and documentation, where the failure is directly tied to obtaining valid informed consent.

What is not included
  • Excludes legal-status or detention transfers that do not concern consent to medical treatment.
  • Excludes general communication, training, documentation or staffing deficiencies unless they are directly tied to the medical-treatment consent process.
  • Excludes clinical assessment or treatment-selection failures that do not concern obtaining or recording informed consent.

Reports and published responses 31 reports

See individual reports that have raised this concern, and the actions taken in response

  1. Brighton and Hove

    AI-generated summary

    John Henry ADAMS · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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    Report summary

    John Henry Adams died following multiple complications of an appropriate cardiac intervention after being recruited to a cardiac trial just before the procedure. Concerns included whether there was sufficient time for informed consent, the suitability and preparedness of the trial operator, and the recording and communication of the trial’s possible relevance to the cardiac tamponade and subsequent death.

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    Source evidence

    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Insufficient time for trial information review and informed consent before procedures

    Wider context from the report

    “(2) Was it appropriate that he should have been recruited within an hour or so prior to his procedure commencing? (3) Did this give him time to read the several page booklet which was provided to him and to absorb the information and give informed consent? ”

    Source location

    John Henry ADAMS · Prevention of Future Deaths report
    Page 2 · concerns

    Open source report

Actions and positions describe what organisations say in published responses. Implementation is not independently verified.

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Data last updated 7 September 2026