---
title: "Informed Consent"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/healthcare-and-pharmaceutical-law-en/informed-consent-en"
field: "Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Law"
description: "Informed consent in Georgia: information blocks, written-form cases, and age thresholds for minors. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-07-09"
updated: "2026-10-23"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Informed Consent

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/healthcare-and-pharmaceutical-law-en/informed-consent-en

## What Informed Consent Is and What Information the Patient Must Receive

Informed consent is a foundational institution of health law. Under the law, it is the consent of the patient — or, where the patient is a minor, of the patient's legal representative — to the provision of a particular medical service, given after the patient received information on the essence and necessity of the service; its expected results; the expected risk to the patient's health and life; alternative options for the intended service, their accompanying risks and possible effectiveness; the expected consequences of refusing the service; and the financial and social issues connected with all of the above.

This definition is a practical checklist for clinics as well: a consent form works only where every one of these blocks has been explained to the patient. The terminology itself is fixed by law — patient, provider of medical services, medical records — and in a dispute it is precisely the content of these concepts that comes under examination.

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### What is informed consent?

The patient's consent given with full information — essence, results, risks, alternatives and consequences of refusal.

### When is written form required?

Surgery, abortion, sterilization, dialysis, genetic testing and the other listed cases.

### Who consents for a minor?

Under 16 — a representative; 14 to 18 with capacity to assess — the patient for defined purposes; over 16 — the patient.

### Is teaching use allowed?

With anonymous data — yes; with identifiable data — only with consent.