Medical consent flags

The consent flags indicate whether the parent or guardian has given written consent for the student to receive any of the following without contacting the parent/guardian:

• medical attention from your organisation's doctor
• medical attention from your organisation's dentist
• medical attention from your organisation's nurse
• administration of paracetamol, anti-histamines or anti-inflammatories.

  

The additional consent flags indicate whether the parent or guardian has given written consent for the following in the event of an emergency where the parent or guardian cannot be contacted:

• ambulance
• operation
• anaesthetic
• blood transfusion
• head lice check
• counselling.

Blood Group

Person's blood group, if consent for a blood transfusion is given.

Sport Consent

Select if consent has been received for the community member to participate in sports at your organisation.

Swim OK

Select if the community member is allowed to participate in swimming events.

Can Swim 50 metres

The ease with which the person can swim 50 metres. Select either:

• Easily
• With difficulty
• Not at All.

Swim Metres

The number of metres that the person can swim in a pool.

In the following example, 150 metres has been entered in the field.

Either:

• type in the value
• click on the up or down arrows to adjust the value.

Comments if Consent not Given

Comments, if one or more consents have not been received.

Private Insurance

Select if the person is a member of a private insurance fund.

Fund / No

The private insurance fund and their membership number.

Note: Funds can be maintained in the luMedicalPrivateInsuranceFund lookup table. See Maintaining lookup tables in the System maintenance manual.

Extra Cover

Select if the person has arranged extra cover from their medical insurer.

Private Insurance Table / Expires

The insurance extras table used and when the cover expires, if the Extra Cover field is selected.

Ambulance Member / No

Select if the person is a subscriber of the ambulance service and specify their membership number.

Medicare No / Line / Expires

The Medicare card number, the line that the community member is on the card and when the card expires. This only applies in Australia.

Health Care Card

Select if the student has a health care card.

Health Care Card No.

The student's health care card number.

Expires

Date the student's health care card expires.