Question

A 15-year-old girl attends your GP surgery requesting the combined oral contraceptive pill. She does not want her parents to know. She understands the information given and can explain the risks and benefits and what she would do if she missed a pill. She would be at risk of unprotected sex without contraception. What is the most appropriate course of action?

Accepted Answer

Prescribe if you consider her to have capacity and act in her best interests, without informing her parents

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Refuse to prescribe unless a parent is present

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Inform her parents regardless of her wishes, as she is under 16

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Inform social services immediately as all sexual activity under 16 is abuse

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Prescribe but tell her you must write to her parents afterwards

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