Role of second professional It can be helpful in assessing mental capacity to take advice from a second health professional before proceeding to treatment, and to record that advice in the patient notes. Documenting the views of a second professional on what is deemed to be in the incompetent patient’s best interests is sometimes very reassuring.


10 | Consent


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