Dr Penny Sheehan

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Talking O&G - a RANZCOG Podcast · E24. Recommendations for Embedding Informed Consent in Clinical Practice (audio) · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

So um the next point is about ensuring the patient's informed about potential costs.

And um, although that might seem more of a private practice issue, um, in fact there are so many more uh extra costs in

involved in public care these days and particularly for our women who are non Medicare, um, it's essential that they understand what costs are going to be involved in even in attending a public hospital.

The last one is about being respectful and supportive of the patient's right to seek a second opinion.

And of course they should uh you know you should welcome the opportunity for any kind of contentious situation for the patient to go and see someone else and hear a different point of view.

So, those are all from the Ranscog guideline.

And I just point out that Safer Care Victoria has recently published a respectful maternity care framework.

And we can add a couple of points for good practice from there.

So this Safer Care Victoria framework borrowed heavily from the Respect framework from Queensland Health and uses Respect as a mnemonic, the RESPE.

C C T and no, I don't think we should sing it.

I don't think this is that sort of podcast.

The R is recognizing the woman's right to decide.

Um E is enlisting appropriate interpreters when needed and um interpreting uh can be critical.

S sharing balanced information.

Um P providing time and space, and we talked about that before.

Um E enabling questions, so giving women, you know, the right and the permission and the space to ask the questions that they need to ask.

C checking for understanding and of course agreement.

Um and T uh trusting that the woman

Can make her own decisions, and that's a point that I'm going to go back to, I think, throughout this talk.

Sometimes it can be hard for clinicians, I think, to trust that the woman will make her own decisions and accept consequences of her decisions.

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