Informed Consent

Course Information

The Dental Board of Australia regards the clinical areas of informed consent and dental records as being of paramount importance, and will assess your compliance with appropriate professional standards when they receive a notification about your performance. AHPRA will often decide that a complaint from a patient can be dismissed with an NFA outcome (no further action), but will then ask the dental practitioner to undergo further education in the areas of informed consent. This webinar will allow you to check that you are recording appropriate consent from your patients in your records, and understand what constitutes effective informed consent, both written and verbal. To see how AHPRA deals with these issues, this webinar will present many case studies where informed consent and records have been a significant issue, including 2 cases where dentists have lost their registration because of failing to gain and record informed consent The Dental Board of Australia regards the clinical areas of informed consent and dental records as being of paramount importance, and will assess your compliance with appropriate professional standards when they receive a notification about your performance. AHPRA will often decide that a complaint from a patient can be dismissed with an NFA outcome (no further action), but will then ask the dental practitioner to undergo further education in the areas of informed consent.