Recurring concern

Inadequate informed-consent processes for medical treatment

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First reported 1 Jul 2014•Latest report 28 Dec 2025

Definition

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.

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
31

Distinct published reports

Individual concerns
37

A report can raise multiple concerns

Date range
2014–2025

First to latest report issue date

Stated actions
56

Described in published responses

Reports over time

Reports over time

Reports about this concern issued each year.

* 2026 is projected from reports observed to 7 Sep 2026.

Most frequent recipients

Most frequent recipients

Reports about this concern sent to each recipient.

Department of Health and Social Care7
Care Quality Commission2
General Medical Council2
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust2
Royal College of Radiologists2
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust2
Aden Court Care Home1
Ashford and St Peter'S Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust1
Association Of Anaesthetists (Great Britain & Ireland)1
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust1
Barts Health NHS Trust1
Birmingham Women'S and Children'S NHS Foundation Trust1
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust1
British Society For Dermatological Surgery1
Circle Health Group Limited1

Concerns and responses across reports

Only concerns grouped under this recurring concern are included. Select any concern, action or position to view the source wording.

  1. Brighton and Hove

    AI-generated summary

    John Henry ADAMS · Prevention of Future Deaths report

    This summary was generated using AI from the published report. Please read the original report for the complete account.

    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
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Data last updated 7 September 2026