Consent To Cancer Screening

Second Edition

Cancer Screening Series No.4
ISBN 978 1 84463 054 7

Published January 2009

This guidance replaces Consent to Cancer Screening (NHS Cancer Screening Series No 4, January 2008), and incorporates revisions and additional content in line with the Mental Capacity Act 2005.

The national office of the NHS Cancer Screening Programmes is grateful to the Public Health and Medical Ethics Department and the Scientific Development and Bioethics Division at the Department of Health for help and advice in drafting this guidance.

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