In message <[log in to unmask]>, at 12:08:44 on
Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Anne Gadsden <[log in to unmask]>
writes
>Can anyone give me a bit of guidance on this? As part of their
>training, there are special sessions set up for student doctors in the
>education department, where they can examine real people (patients and
>ex-patients) and get hand-on experience and training in a less frenetic
>environment than the wards. The education department themselves have
>produced a consent form (DA) for the patients to sign before they come,
>and an information leaflet explaining everything about the day itself,
>and how the information will be used. All well and good, but now
>managers are asking whether these consent forms are necessary (is a
>general leaflet outline the various uses of information in the Trust
>enough?), and if they are necessary, should they be kept in the health
>record?
>
>Anyone with a particular view on this one?
Having spent much of the last two years being probed, poked and
variously examined at a teaching hospital, there has never been an
explicit consent form on offer, merely an occasional notice (usually too
late to realistically respond) to the effect that one could opt-out.
I have no idea if this is "best practice", but it's never worried me.
Students need training, and as far as I'm concerned the more they get,
the better.
--
Roland Perry
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