Is it necessary for the Indian healthcare system to have a Standardized patient consent form? Since long, there has been absence of a uniform template for taking the patient’s consent for medical treatment, which caused confusion among doctors. Indian Medical Association (IMA), Trichy, Tamil Nadu Orthopaedic Association (TNOA) and National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru have together drafted a template for the consent form and presented it in a seminar in Trichy. It would become legal after necessary discussions, inputs, modifications and amendments.
Doctors expressed that the component of consent is a ‘grey area’, since the law emphasizes on mere consent but does not prescribe a particular form of consent to be mandatory. Following a uniform template for consent, would minimize confusion as well as risk of medical negligence. All the patients have the legal right…
