Patients aged 16 years or older

from the age of 16,
Your consent is needed for ongoing parental or carer involvement in your care and sharing of health information:

As a patient aged 16 years or more, your specialist provider will normally require your parents’ (or other carers') ongoing support and involvement in your health care.

Unless your provider has agreed otherwise, to continue your care with your private provider, you will need to consent to a parent or guardian’s continued involvement in your health care.

Your consent is needed for your parents’ or carer’s

• continued responsibility for your account as your Account Holder in accordance with the Fee Payment and other policies. (Bulk Billing is not offered)

• Continued assistance to:

  • help manage communications with our reception team about bookings, fees or other matters,

  • assist you in attending appointments in the clinic or by video,

  • Assist and support you in consultations with your provider,

  • support and assist you with healthcare decision-making and care,

  • fill or collect prescriptions.

To provide your written consent, please complete our Consent To Share with Family Form

Email us to ask for this if we have not sent it to you.

Your personal contact details (phone and email) are needed

We may need to verify your written consent.

We may need to speak with you to verify written notice of your consent or refusal of consent.

We may need to contact you directly, even when you have previously given consent for parental involvement.

You can convey or decline consent to parental involvement in several ways:

We need your consent to provide or discuss your health information with your parent. You can show your consent when you are present, or by providing written consent.

You may wish to limit your parent or guardian’s access to other aspects of your care but should discuss this with your provider.

When your parent seeks to liaise on your behalf, and you are not with them. Your written consent will be required to allow us to liaise with your parent/s when you are not present.  Common situations arise when parents phone or email us on your behalf regarding appointments or medical matters.

Patients aged 18 or older:

After you turn 18, your provider may still need to have the support and involvement of your parents or carer as previously. Alternatively, your provider may agree to continue providing care with some limitations on sharing information. Still, either way, your provider will be guided by their judgment of what is needed for your best interests.

We will need your consent to have a parent as your Account Holder in most cases. This parent will be responsible for accounts and will need to know the fees, so please ensure you have passed this information to them well in advance of your appointment.

You are also welcome to pay the full fee yourself or a parent can phone through the payment following your appointment..

Requests for special account arrangements must be discussed well in advance with the Manager, on behalf of your doctor. Your provider does not bulk bill.

From the age of 18, most patients will usually be in the process of transitioning to adult healthcare services. As a young adult, your doctor and the Prosper Paediatrics staff will generally treat you as the primary contact. If you have exceptional reasons, the continued involvement of parents or carers in sharing and liaising may be needed if this is legally permissible and in your best interests. Where a Court Order permits, or other legal provision is in place, you may continue to rely on your parent or carer for decision-making regarding your health care.