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Clinical ethics
Does the General Medical Council’s 2020 guidance on consent advance on its 2008 guidance?
- Correspondence to Dr Abeezar I Sarela, Department of Surgery, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds LS9 7TF, UK; a.sarela{at}leeds.ac.uk
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Does the General Medical Council’s 2020 guidance on consent advance on its 2008 guidance?
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- Received February 18, 2021
- Accepted August 1, 2021
- First published August 23, 2021.
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November 28, 2022
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