A competent 15-year-old girl attends her GP alone requesting the combined oral contraceptive pill and asks that her parents are not told. She is in a ...

Question

A competent 15-year-old girl attends her GP alone requesting the combined oral contraceptive pill and asks that her parents are not told. She is in a stable relationship with a 16-year-old boy. What is the most appropriate course of action?

Accepted Answer

Assess her understanding and Gillick competence, provide confidential contraception if appropriate and offer sexual health advice

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Refuse contraception until a parent attends

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Contact social services immediately

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Inform her parents but continue to see her

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Prescribe emergency contraception only and ask her to return with a parent

uk-plab-1 MCQ (SBA): Gillick competence and contraception

A competent 15-year-old girl attends her GP alone requesting the combined oral contraceptive pill and asks that her parents are not told. She is in a stable relationship with a 16-year-old boy. What is the most appropriate course of action?