2023-04-20 21:58:31
Explanation Medical Treatment Agreement Act (WGBO)
Vision Youth Health Care West Brabant
Youth Health Care (JGZ) in West Brabant strives for every child to grow up in a healthy and safe environment. Together with the parents, our JGZ professionals monitor children and young people from 0 to 19 years old. If healthy and safe upbringing is not self-evident, we help parents with this. Together we look at what the child or family needs and what help we can offer.
To achieve our goal, we, Thuiszorg West-Brabant (TWB) and GGD West-Brabant, have joined forces through a partnership. With the professional and years of experience of our employees, we support you, as a parent, in the upbringing and development of your child. Together we are strong!
Medical Treatment Agreement Act (WGBO)
The moment you come to us with your child and your child is therefore taken into care by the Youth Health Care of TWB / GGD West-Brabant, a so-called medical treatment agreement is created.
The Medical Treatment Contracts Act describes and lays down the rights and obligations of you, your child, you as parents and the auxiliary and care providers in this respect. Below we discuss some of these rights and obligations of which we believe it is important that you are well informed.
The care provider is obliged to provide patients with all information about examinations that are taking place and the treatments that are proposed. A patient is also informed about developments regarding the examination, the treatment and the patient’s state of health. The care provider does this clearly and regularly with the aid of written/digital information material.
Of course you will also be informed of the expected risks to your child’s health, about any other treatment options and prospects. The care provider provides the same information to your child, even if the child is younger than 12 years old. This will of course be done in a way that is understandable for your child.
Care providers are obliged to ask permission from you as a parent and/or caregiver for every medical treatment. If your child is 12 years or older, he or she must also give permission. Care providers generally assume that you agree to perform common actions. You can think of the examination that takes place when you and your child are at the Youth Health Care.
In cases of emergency, care providers will first act in the best interest of your child and then inform you.
If your child is younger than 12 years old, you as parents/carers must give permission for examination or treatment.
In principle, children aged 12 to 16 are capable of making their own assessments and of having their own opinion. In their case, consent is required from both the parents/carers and the child for treatment. If you and your child do not agree and the child sticks to his or her opinion, the counselor will in principle do what the child asks. This is only different if the care provider is of the opinion that the child is not sufficiently capable of making the relevant decision.
Children 16 years and older are equal to adults in this case by law. They therefore also decide on a treatment themselves.
Care providers keep a child file. This records information collected about your child, such as your child’s development, results of tests and possibly also reports of psychological tests. A patient has the right to view the child file. For children under the age of 12, you have this right, as well as the right to receive a copy of the child’s file.
For children aged 12 to 16, both they and you have the right to inspect the file and to receive a copy.
If your child is 16 or older, he or she has the right to inspect the file and possibly receive a copy of it. If others, including you as parents/guardians, wish to view the file or receive a copy of it, this is only possible if the child gives permission for this.
If you have any questions about the information above or if you would like to view your child’s file, please contact TWB ([email protected]) or GGD West-Brabant ([email protected]).
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