Patients aged 16 years or older

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.

Your consent will be needed for this.

Unless your provider has agreed otherwise, 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.

You can show your consent verbally and through your conduct. Your written consent is required for situations where you are not present, such as bookings, billing, liaison with parents and patient correspondence.

We will need your phone number and email address in case we need to contact you or send you documents.

Adjusting healthcare relationships as you get older

As you get older, your paediatric provider may offer opportunities for private consultation with you if deemed appropriate for your best interests and developing maturity. You or your doctor may request this.

if you have concerns about your parent’s involvement or wish to limit this sharing of information, you must discuss this with your provider, and they, in the exercise of their professional discretion as to your best interests,

  • may agree to continue their care with some limitations on or no further sharing of information with one or both parents or carers

  • may decline to continue provision of care and transfer care to another provider.

Patients aged 18 or older:

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.

By age 18, most patients are transitioning to adult healthcare services. As a young adult, your doctor and the Prosper Paediatrics staff will now 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 necessary, provided it 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 and accounts regarding your health care.