In 2015, almost 60 years of conventional medical practice was legally challenged in a landmark case regarding consent to treatment. The College has developed a series of three podcasts exploring the legal, ethical and practical implications of the Montgomery judgement, and discussing the new guidance on Consent: Supported Decision-Making, produced by the College.

Our first podcast considered the legal context of the Montgomery ruling. This episode discusses the benefits of this change beyond the law, and explores some of the ethical challenges of the judgement for surgeons.

Consent Episode 2

In 2015, almost 60 years of conventional medical practice was legally challenged in a landmark case regarding consent to treatment. The College has developed a series of three podcasts exploring the legal, ethical and practical implications of the Montgomery judgement, and discussing the new guidance on Consent: Supported Decision-Making, produced by the College.

The first podcast in the series discusses the main principles of the Montgomery ruling and includes a dramatisation based on two real medicolegal case studies involving consent, illustrating the important shifts in practice that are now required to work within the law.

Consent Episode 1

In the first part of these podcasts, Professor Keri Thomas, National Clinical lead for the GSF Centre for End of Life Care, and Dame Clare Marx, former RCS President, discuss some of the issues with operating on patients nearing the end of their lives, and consider some of the ethical dilemmas.

In the second part, Professor Keri Thomas and Dame Clare Marx are joined by Miss Sue Hill, Vice-president of the RCS and Katerina Sarafidou, Head of Standards at the RCS, to discuss what can be done practically to support patients and their families in these complex decisions, and to explore who is best placed, and when, to have these life-and-death conversations.

End of Life Podcast Part 2

End of Life Podcast Part 1

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The Museums Department records selected lectures and events held at the Hunterian Museum and archives the recordings for the public.
These recordings were made during 2015.

War Art And Surgery Andrew Graham - Dixon On Henry Tonks

Past Caring The History Of Bethlem Hospital

The Museums Department records selected lectures and events held at the Hunterian Museum and archives the recordings for the public.
These recordings were made during 2014.

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Hunter Helmand Conference - Day 1 - Session 2

The Museums Department records selected lectures and events held at the Hunterian Museum and archives the recordings for the public.
These recordings were made during 2013.

The Hoax And The Hunterian: Piltdown Man And Sir Arthur Keith

'The most unstable and unsubstantial thing possible': Building The Royal College Of Surgeons

The Museums Department records selected lectures and events held at the Hunterian Museum and archives the recordings for the public.
These recordings were made during 2012.

Lister as a Pathologist

The Museums Department records selected lectures and events held at the Hunterian Museum and archives the recordings for the public.
These recordings were made during 2010.

Wellington's Combat Surgeon George Guthrie

Joseph Lister: Surgeon and microscopist

The Museums Department records selected lectures and events held at the Hunterian Museum and archives the recordings for the public.
These recordings were made during 2009.

Hunterian Museum lectures and events 2009

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Darwins London - Dr Joe Cain

The Museums Department records selected lectures and events held at the Hunterian Museum and archives the recordings for the public.
These recordings were made during 2008.

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