This comprehensive Shared Decision Making/Informed Consent training provides healthcare professionals with the knowledge and practical skills needed to carry out effective capacity assessments, obtain and record informed consent, and navigate complex scenarios such as emergencies, digital consent, remote consultations, and best-interest decision-making.
Topics also include the legal framework, professional guidance, case law, and how to apply these principles confidently in daily practice.
What you will learn on our Shared Decision Making/Informed Consent Training
- Assess, document and communicate a patient’s decision-making capacity confidently and lawfully
- Understand what constitutes informed consent and ensure patients have the information they need to make safe, supported decisions
- Apply best-interest decision-making when patients lack capacity, using the appropriate legal and ethical framework
- Act lawfully and ethically when treating in an emergency where consent cannot be obtained
- Understand the difference between advance decisions and advance statements
- Meet essential legal and professional standards for documentation and record keeping
- Delegate tasks safely while maintaining accountability and effective supervision
- Manage consent, capacity and communication considerations in remote consultations
- Obtain and record consent using digital tools and systems
- Understand key case law shaping consent and capacity practice
- Share patient information appropriately, balancing consent, confidentiality and lawful information sharing
Course format & logistics
- Duration: One full day (virtual or in-person)
- Format: Interactive workshop with practical exercises
- CPD-accredited and tailored for NHS and care settings
- Includes: Templates, structures and take-home tools
- Public course format and fee: virtual £200 + vat per person
- In-house course format and fee: virtual £2500 + vat and in-person £3500 + vat
Why this course is different
This shared decision making/informed consent training is led by healthcare lawyers, making legal principles easy to understand and apply in day-to-day clinical practice.
“The session is going to have a huge impact on my practice, during the teaching there were lots of really practical suggestions to improve practice. The teaching also made me re-think the culture there potentially is in medicine about the reason behind consent, thinking much more about it being a partnership with the patient, that it is personalised and holistic and it isn’t just a way to protect ourselves.”
Consultant, Palliative Medicine
“Affirming, empowering, challenging. A really worthwhile day.”
Advanced Paediatric Nurse Practitioner
Useful links
MPS Consent An Essential Guide
Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014: Regulation 11
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