Would you allow your child to be tested by army personnel in school? What about vaccinated?

[Treesofwood]

Would you expect them to need parental consent to do this to young children?

I cannot stress enough how much DS and his friends would bloody love this

"you need to be a registered HCP to administer any drug"

I gave ds his flu vaccine last week because he can't cope with the nurse doing it.

Thousands of non-trained adults have done tests in the back of cars. I'm sure someone with a wee bit of training and proper facilities could do it.

Millions of non-medical people have trained to do injections, diabetics, cancer patients, women who've had fertility treatments, people who carry epi pen and that's the non-medical folk I can think of.

So I don't really have an issue with someone with a bit of training doing it, regardless of their day job.

Secondary school children are being tested in Liverpool this week. Starting Tues i think. Parental consent is needed. If enough people take up the offers of the test it could be a great way to work out the spread in schools and keep pupils and staff safe.

Anyone trained and serving in the army is more than capable of being taught to give a vaccine properly. I'm more than happy for them to swab and vaccinate my children.