Where do we stand on this? We expressly gave written refusal for our dd to have hearing screaning done at school. It was still done and they have written to us telling us that they intend to retest because she failed (she was born deaf so of course she failed). Although no harm done per se it was done without consent, in fact against our written refusal. There is, in our opinion, a failing in the system used here which assumes consent has been given unless they recieve the slip back saying consent has been refused. Clearly this never got to the person doing the tests and so it was assumed that consent was not refused. We are now totally untrusting of the school health system and will probably totally disengage from it if possible. But before we do we would like to ensure that this can't happen to others or worse still others get an injection that the parents returned the slip for refusing consent. We feel that we need legal advice really. We don't have the slip obviously and the dr who carried out the test can't prove consent as it was never given. Where do we stand?
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rebl · 08/05/2011 19:40
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