Hi - am new after lurking for ages. Just received e mail from Voice for Justice about letters recently received giving 13 yr olds authority on parents accessing medical records.
'Letters have recently, and unexpectedly, been falling onto the doormats of what appear at the moment to be selected households – first, a letter to parents, and, second, a letter to children between the ages of 13 and 16. Though differently worded both inform the recipient that after May 25th the legal age for consent to the sharing of information, here defined as medical information,will be 13. Which means that parents, without their child’s permission, would no longer be allowed access to their child’s medical records, including information about current and proposed medical procedures.And children over the age of 13 would be guaranteed complete secrecy, unless they gave permission for their parents to be informed.To put it bluntly, all medical information relating to children over the age of 13 would after May 25th be automatically withheld from parents, unless the child had given his or her explicit consent.'
It means for e.g. child could be prescribed puberty blockers without parent knowing!