Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 120513

Consent to Medical Treatment

Tabled: 12 March 2026

Answered: 19 March 2026

Question

Dr Scott Arthur

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, further to the Written Answer given on 2 March 2026 (UIN 114544), does he plan to review or update this guidance.

Answer

Dr Zubir Ahmed

The Department has no current plans to review or update informed consent guidance in protecting National Health Service clinicians from subsequent legal challenge where animal-derived ingredients are used in medicines or treatments without explicit disclo...

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