Dear Colleagues,
Here at Central we are currently debating arrangements for students who need to go to hospital. Informal practice has been, on occasion, for a member of the SU, or staff, or another student, to accompany a student in this situation, but there is a general sense that this is not appropriate and should no longer occur.
Where a student requires an ambulance, they would clearly be handed over to the medical authorities, but otherwise they should perhaps be left to make their own arrangements. This does, of course, raise questions about those with disclosures of pre existing medical conditions and/or mental health difficulties and if they should be treated differently. It would be helpful to know colleagues own approaches to this issue.
Jamie Crabb
Disability Services Coordinator
Central School of Speech and Drama
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