Recommended Lazomis QI Resources
Published Lazomis QI articles selected for this audit topic.
Designing Safer Clinical Processes: A Guide for Healthcare Teams
Patient Safety
Guide
Consent is a clinical safety process — communication, decision making, risk discussion, capacity assessment, documentation and reliable handover of agreed decisions.
Open resource
How Clinical Audit Enhances Clinical Governance
Clinical Governance
How-to article
Frames consent documentation review as clinical governance work — professional standards, capacity, risk communication and local policy compliance — rather than form completion.
Open resource
PDSA Cycles: A Practical Guide to Testing Change in Healthcare
Quality Improvement
Guide
Supports turning findings into tested changes such as consent-form prompts, pre-procedure checklists, interpreter access prompts or capacity-assessment prompts.
Open resource
How to Write a Clinical Audit Report: A Practical Guide for UK NHS Teams
Clinical Audit
Guide
Supports structuring results into a report suitable for governance meetings, specialty audit meetings, portfolio evidence or local improvement reporting.
Open resource
Audit-specific guidance and standards
Source guidance for consent, capacity and shared decision making.
Decision making and consent
Core professional guidance on shared decision making, material risks, reasonable alternatives and recording the discussion.
General Medical Council
Open source
NICE NG197 — Shared decision making
National guideline on embedding shared decision making in everyday clinical practice.
NICE
Open source
NICE CG138 — Patient experience in adult NHS services
Standards for communication, information giving and involving people in decisions about their care.
NICE
Open source
Mental Capacity Act 2005 Code of Practice
Statutory guidance on assessing capacity, best interests decisions and consultation with others.
Ministry of Justice / GOV.UK
Open source
Mental Capacity Act 2005
The primary legislation governing decisions for adults who lack capacity in England and Wales.
legislation.gov.uk
Open source
Reference guide to consent for examination or treatment
Reference guide underpinning most local consent policies and consent form types.
Department of Health and Social Care
Open source
Consent: supported decision making — a guide to good practice
Practical guidance on consent for surgery and interventional procedures, including two-stage consent.
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Open source
Consent and shared decision making for nursing and midwifery practice
Professional standards for consent, capacity and record keeping in nursing and midwifery practice.
Nursing and Midwifery Council
Open source
Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] UKSC 11
Judgment establishing the duty to disclose material risks and reasonable alternatives.
The Supreme Court
Open source
Duty of candour and being open
Relevant where consent documentation concerns arise alongside patient safety incidents.
Care Quality Commission
Open source
Project sources
Added in Project setup. Add a URL so the team can open the source directly.
Consent policy (demo)
Demo NHS Foundation Trust (sample) · Local policy
DEMO — local consent policy reference used for this sample project.
Add link in Setup
Endoscopy consent form guidance (demo)
Demo NHS Foundation Trust (sample) · Procedure-specific consent form
DEMO — procedure-specific form guidance used by the endoscopy service.
Add link in Setup
Local references to configure
Typical local documents to add as project sources.
Local consent policy
Configure in Setup
Local consent form templates (forms 1–4 or local equivalents)
Configure in Setup
Procedure-specific consent forms and patient information leaflets
Configure in Setup
Local Mental Capacity Act and best interests policy
Configure in Setup
Local interpreting and communication support policy
Configure in Setup
Local safeguarding adults policy
Configure in Setup
Tool categories
Website tags — for tool-library navigation.
Primary
Clinical Documentation
Patient Safety
Clinical Governance
Shared Decision Making
Consent
Secondary
Acute Medicine
Surgery
Endoscopy
Interventional Radiology
Outpatients
Mental Capacity
Safeguarding
Nursing
Quality Improvement
Clinical safety note
This tool supports, but does not replace, clinical judgement. Local consent policy, Mental Capacity Act procedures, safeguarding processes, specialist advice and organisational legal advice should be followed.