eConsent

Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust is digitising the patient consent to treatment process, replacing handwritten consent forms.

The introduction of e-Consent has many benefits, including:

• Removing difficulty of reading handwritten consents
• Making it easier to track patient consent than easily misplaced paper forms
• Making it easier to audit consent
• A clearer, standardised process for consent that ensures patients are provided with consistent information about their procedure
• Providing a secure method of gaining consent from a patient in their own time.
• Ensuring a permanent copy of the signed eConsent form is automatically sent and stored against the patients record in the EPR (Meditech