Amanda, have you ever had a situation where the employee does not agree with your recommendations and refused to sign consent to release the report. If so, what do you do then?
I had always thought that signed consent was good practice, but that legally we were able to issue advice on fitness for work and any reasonable adaptations without signed consent, and that consent was only legally required if we were releasing medical information in the report.
Am following this with great interest
Helen
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Hi Tina /all
I discuss the reason for referral with the client at the start of the interview and go through what is written on the management referral form so that I know that they know why they are there. I explain at this point that at the end of the interview i will need to formulate a report for management addressing the questions asked as part of the referral.
At the end of the interview I discuss with the client what I feel the recommendations / advice to management should be and bullet point it is the report. i then ask the client if they consider this reasonable. If so I ask them to consent to the release of the report to the manager in question as outlined in the bullet points within the notes and they sign the notes with the consent statement. where they request a copy of the report, one is sent.
The bullet points also help in the dictation of the report - the dictation tends to be less garbled!!
Amanda Dowson
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