Example sentences of "[noun] to treatment " in BNC.

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31 No minor of whatever age has power by refusing consent to treatment to override a consent to treatment by someone who has parental responsibility for the minor and a fortiori a consent by the court .
32 No minor of whatever age has power by refusing consent to treatment to override a consent to treatment by someone who has parental responsibility for the minor and a fortiori a consent by the court .
33 The effect of consent to treatment by the minor or someone else with authority to give it is limited to protecting the medical or dental practitioner from claims for damages for trespass to the person .
34 The powers of the court are greater than the powers of a natural parent : see the recent decision of the High Court of Australia in Department of Health and Community Services v. J. W. B. and S. M. B. ( 1992 ) 66 A.L.J.R. 300 , 314 , 333 ; In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 , 25 , 28 .
35 This interpretation of section 8 was given , obiter , by Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 , 24 .
36 The law has been thus stated in a number of earlier decisions of this court , of which In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 is the most recent .
37 Held , dismissing the appeal , that although an adult patient was entitled to refuse consent to treatment irrespective of the wisdom of his decision , for such a refusal to be effective his doctors had to be satisfied that at the time of his refusal his capacity to decide had not been diminished by illness or medication or by false assumptions or misinformation , that his will had not been overborne by another 's influence and that his decision had been directed to the situation in which it had become relevant ; that where a patient 's refusal was not effective the doctors were free to treat him in accordance with their clinical judgment of his best interests ; that in all the circumstances , including T. 's mental and physical state when she signed the form , the pressure exerted on her by her mother and the misleading response to her inquiry as to alternative treatment , her refusal was not effective and the doctors were justified in treating her on the principle of necessity ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order had been properly made ( post , pp. 786G–H , 795B–F , 796F–H , 797B–F , 798A–B , E–G , 799B–G , H — 800B , E–G , 803C–D , F — 804B , F–G , H — 805B , F ) .
38 R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) , In re [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 ; [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 592 ; [ 1991 ] 4 All E.R. 177 , C.A.
39 W. ( A Minor ) ( Inherent Jurisdiction : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] 3 W.L.R. 758 , C.A.
40 In recent months we have had to review the law in relation to the medical treatment of children : see In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 and In re W. ( A Minor ) ( Inherent Jurisdiction : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] 3 W.L.R. 758 .
41 In recent months we have had to review the law in relation to the medical treatment of children : see In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 and In re W. ( A Minor ) ( Inherent Jurisdiction : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] 3 W.L.R. 758 .
42 The patient may elect for and consent to treatment B and thereby impliedly decline to consent to treatment A. Again there will be no problem .
43 Nor does a patient who refuses consent in some circumstances necessarily give a true refusal of consent to treatment in any quite different circumstances which may arise : an example is to be found in Werth v. Taylor ( 1991 ) 475 N.W.2d 426 .
44 T. ( Adult : Refusal of Consent to Treatment ) , In re [ 1992 ] 3 W.L.R. 782 , C.A.
45 I do so in the knowledge that the fundamental question appears to have been left open by Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in In re T. ( Adult : Refusal of Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] 3 W.L.R. 782 , and in the knowledge that there is no English authority which is directly in point .
46 In addition to tightening up the compulsory admission and detention procedures , the new Act tries to deal with the difficult issue of consent to treatment .
47 Third , the Mental Health Act Commission has a specific and quite narrow remit to protect the rights of detained patients , to ensure that the provisions of the Mental Health Act of 1983 for consent to treatment are followed , and to investigate individual complaints .
48 For Approved Social Workers who may well be consulted under the s.58 ( consent to treatment ) provision of the Mental Health Act , clozapine presents a number of ethical issues , including , most importantly , the forcible treatment of patients with the drug , some of whom may also be forced to give blood against their will , in a stretching of common law interpretations relating to non psychiatric medical interventions .
49 There was no freedom , no consent to treatment , no second opinion , no review , no lawyer , no notice of rights , no definite time limit to the detention — and no cure .
50 Certainly a child over the age of 16 may give valid consent to medical treatment ( Family Law Reform Act 1969 , s8 ) and may be presumed to have the capacity to withhold consent to treatment and examination unless mentally incapacitated in some way .
51 Although there were no significant differences in the global left ventricular ejection fractions whether patients were treated early or in the third hour , when the global left ventricular ejection fraction measured in these patients was plotted against time and a regression analysis performed , the delay in treatment was significantly related to the global ejection fraction , i.e. the longer the delay to treatment the lower the global ejection fraction .
52 The mean time after myocardial infarction to treatment was 11 days .
53 Questions about equal access to services and equal rights to treatment also raise important issues about the value of particular interventions .
54 MIND has continued to play a strong public role in defending the civil liberties and rights to treatment and care of all mentally disordered people , and it has been particularly successful in supporting individuals who have been maltreated and neglected by the mental health service system .
55 Is this not working in the opposite direction to treatment by similars and driving the imbalances , the illnesses , deeper into the system ?
56 This survey shows that many patients received no follow up and no change to treatment despite experiencing an asthma attack .
57 Clearly , the existence of timber decay is likely to be related to other shortcomings in the condition of the building and these faults may require rectification in addition to treatment of the timber .
58 In addition to treatment with chloride , the firm has stabilised the porosity of the walls and finally applied a fine film to inhibit water penetration .
59 One aircraft is kept on permanent 24-hour standby to fly urgent medical cases to treatment off the island , and the airport can be opened for that purpose at any time at short notice .
60 Many erroneous assumptions are made both about the nature of cancer in older people and the response to treatment .
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