BMA guidance – Forensic and secure environments ethics toolkit

The BMA have designed a toolkit to help you navigate the main areas of ethical concern you are likely to encounter in your practice as a forensic physician, including consent, treating vulnerable patients and working with dual loyalties.

The resource is not intended to be a comprehensive guide to ethical questions arising for forensic physicians. It signposts the ethical factors you need to take into consideration when making decisions.

It is hoped that this will also provide useful guidance to other health professionals, as well as to those in management roles in the criminal justice system who work alongside forensic physicians.