Posted By Zoe Barnett I've been contacted by a school who took a party to Alton Towers. Following a slip one of the students broke his leg and was taken to hospital where the doctors refused to accept the anaesthetic consent form that his parents had signed. This was despite the form being practically word for word the same as the one in the DfES guidance for school visits, so one would have assumed it was legally correct. In the end the poor lad had to wait whilst his parents came up from Kent to give their consent for an anaesthetic. Have any colleagues come across this sort of thing? Presumably it's up to an individual hospital (or maybe even an individual doctor?) to decide what constitutes an acceptable consent document. All I can suggest is that the school contact the hospital to find out exactly what they want on a form but I wondered if anyone else had been able to deal with this problem. Thanks as always for the help!