Telehealth consent addendum
Cover the risks and logistics that remote delivery adds to ordinary informed consent.
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Telehealth is not the same treatment delivered through a screen; it changes the frame, the risk picture and the legal position. Three items are routinely forgotten by trainees and all three are the ones that matter in an emergency.
- 1Where is the patient physically located, right now, at the start of each session? Licensure generally follows the patient’s location, and emergency services must be dispatched to a real address.
- 2Who else is present or within earshot, and can the patient speak freely? A patient in an abusive household cannot.
- 3What happens if the connection drops mid-session, and who calls whom?
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4 required fields outstanding: Patient’s physical location (address for emergency services); Are you licensed / authorised to practise in the patient’s jurisdiction?; Local emergency contact and local crisis number …