There must be an update to the law to ensure informed consent is made mandatory before ALL medical and cosmetic surgeries/procedures/treatments and before prescriptions are written. 

Legislation must ensure all known risks are declared to the patient. Failure to comply resulting in needless injury must be prosecutable.

Too many patients have been denied details of serious known risks, resulting in needless life altering damage. Currently, we believe there is not sufficient deterrent to ensure culpability and that medical/cosmetic organisations abuse their power by cherry-picking the information given to patients.

We believe that to deny a patient details of a known risk, to risk a worse outcome for a patient having a non-urgent procedure/treatment, without their consent is abhorrent.

Without informed consent, patients are unable to make an informed decision about their treatment. 

The MHRA, which needs urgent reform, currently informs needlessly harmed patients that all medical treatment has risks as well as benefits.

What the MHRA fails to appreciate is that patients are being denied details of these serious known risks.

Patients were denied details of serious known risks for these products:

• Mesh
• Perineal Post
• PSSD
• Labiaplasties 
• Sodium Valproate
• Primodos
• Vaccines
• Blood products

The list goes on. 

The one thing all these harmed patients have in common is that we were ALL denied informed consent.

This is my personal experience if you would like to read. No patient expects to wake up from a non-urgent surgery with a new, needless, more distressing injury.

Every patient deserves informed consent, failure to provide this is a human rights violation.