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. The NHS Constitution establishes principles and values that underpin the NHS. These include:

Legally enforceable rights correct incorrect

A right to choose a named consultant correct incorrect

Complaints must be properly investigated and dealt with correct incorrect

Not all NHS bodies need to be bound by the Constitution correct incorrect

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. Clinical governance is the system by which NHS agencies continually monitor and improve the quality of care. The main strands are:

Complaints handling and audit correct incorrect

Resource management correct incorrect

Professional regulation correct incorrect

Handling claims for clinical negligence correct incorrect

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. In a case of medical negligence a claimant can succeed only if it is established on the balance of probabilities:

That the doctor breached the duty of care owed to the patient correct incorrect

That the breach caused legally recognised injury to the patient correct incorrect

That the doctor owed a duty of care to the patient correct incorrect

All the above correct incorrect

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. The standard of care in cases of medical negligence is measured against:

The most recent medical research evidence available correct incorrect

What is expected of a reasonable doctor correct incorrect

What the majority of doctors would recommend correct incorrect

The standard of experts in the field correct incorrect

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. Which case is authority for the principle that doctors must inform patients in broad terms of the nature of the procedure to be carried out in order to avoid a charge of battery?

Canterbury v. Spence (1972) correct incorrect

Chatterton v Gerson [1981] correct incorrect

Re T (Adult: refusal of treatment) [1993] correct incorrect

Montgomery v. Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] correct incorrect

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. The requirements of valid consent are:

The person must be competent correct incorrect

There must be no duress or coercion correct incorrect

Sufficient information must have been given correct incorrect

All of the above options are correct correct incorrect

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. Which of the following statements is not true about the duty of confidentiality?

Its ethical basis can be justified on consequentialist and deontological grounds correct incorrect

The duty of confidentiality is found referred to in the Hippocratic Oath correct incorrect

It is an absolute duty correct incorrect

It is governed by common law and statute correct incorrect

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. The case of ABC v. St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust [2017] is authority for:
The General Data Protection Regulation:

A duty of care can be owed in certain circumstances to a third party outside the doctor /patient relationship correct incorrect

health professionals owe a duty of care to all third parties who are genetically related correct incorrect

The creation of a general duty of care owed by health professionals to anyone who is not their patient correct incorrect

None of the above correct incorrect

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. Which of the statements below is false?

Abortion was legalised by the Abortion Act 1967 correct incorrect

The Abortion Act 1967 provides defences for doctors who act in accordance with the Abortion Act in certain circumstances correct incorrect

Abortion is an offence under sections 58 and 59 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 correct incorrect

Abortion is an offence under s1(1) of the Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929 correct incorrect

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. Section 58 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 provides that it is an offence if:

Another person attempts to cause a pregnant woman to miscarry correct incorrect

A pregnant woman attempts to cause herself a miscarriage correct incorrect

Another person attempts to cause a pregnant woman to miscarry and an abortion is actually caused correct incorrect

A pregnant woman attempts and intends to cause herself a miscarriage correct incorrect

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. The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence definition of infertility is:

Failure to conceive at a time of one's choosing correct incorrect

Failure to conceive for a period of two years correct incorrect

Failure to conceive after frequent unprotected sexual intercourse for one to two years in couples in the reproductive age group correct incorrect

Failure to conceive after frequent unprotected sexual intercourse for ten years in couples in the reproductive age group correct incorrect

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. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990:

Aims to promote safe and ethical use of assisted reproductive technologies correct incorrect

Was amended by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 correct incorrect

Provides the legal framework for the regulation of infertility treatment and research correct incorrect

All of the options are correct correct incorrect

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. Which case confirms the general legal principle that there are no property rights in the body?

Dobson v North Tyneside HA [1997] correct incorrect

R v Kelly correct incorrect

Yearworth v North Bristol NHS Trust correct incorrect

None of the options are correct correct incorrect

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. For purposes of the law death is:

Cessation of all brain activity correct incorrect

Cessation of brainstem activity correct incorrect

Cessation of cardiac activity correct incorrect

Cardio-pulmonary arrest correct incorrect

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. For purposes of the law a mental disorder is:

Any disorder or disability of the mind correct incorrect

A disorder such as a learning disability correct incorrect

All the options are correct correct incorrect

A disorder affecting the mind such as drug or alcohol dependence correct incorrect

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. Which of the following statements about mental health patients is true:

A voluntary patient is one who does not resist admission or treatment correct incorrect

A non-compulsory patient is one who does not require immediate treatment correct incorrect

A sectioned patient is one who did not require legislative processes for either admission or treatment correct incorrect

None of the options are correct correct incorrect

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. Active euthanasia is:

A positive act which causes death correct incorrect

A crime in the United Kingdom correct incorrect

Active euthanasia can be voluntary, involuntary or non-voluntary correct incorrect

All of the options are correct correct incorrect

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. The 'doctrine of double effect':

Was applied in the case of R v Cox (1992) correct incorrect

Is not subject to the doctrine of proportionality correct incorrect

Distinguishes between the intended good effects of an action (such as relief of pain) and the foreseen, yet unintended consequences (such as respiratory depression) correct incorrect

Is a legitimate defence against passive euthanasia correct incorrect