Scotland’s Chief Scientist Office has launched a consultation on whether doctors and ethics committees should be allowed to consent to research on behalf of incapacitated patients whose representatives are not available.
The law allows for patients incapacitated by, for example, a head trauma or stroke, to take part in most research only with consent of their guardian, welfare attorney or nearest relative.
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