Violation of Informed Consent UK enquiry
Dear NHSX,
Dear NHSX,
My request for a prompt reply please for my enquiry:
Please provide proof of the manner of Informed consent that has been and is carried out to all the millions of UK people -ie at what point were they all shown the Yellow cards reports -and if they were shown was that before or after the vaccines?This revealing of adverse effects is required by law to comply legally with Informed consent.
The UK Government's COVID-19 vaccination programme is now in full swing and the general public is being bombarded with the official line that to stop the COVID-19 pandemic and regain their freedom, people must be vaccinated. In fact they are told they must be vaccinated twice. Of course the BBC has been one of the strongest repeaters of the official government line, and the BBC proudly boasted on 23 March 2021 that:
Almost 28 million people in the UK have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine - part of the biggest inoculation programme the country has ever launched.
In a race against a faster-spreading variant of the virus, ministers have pinned their hopes of easing a third national lock down on vaccinating as many adults as possible by summer.
Reading the second BBC line, we can see this carefully crafted sentence ramps up the fear, by warning us of "a faster-spreading variant of the virus", and drops in hope as in "hopes of easing third national lock-down." Thus in one sentence the BBC suggests to the mind of the reader that to stop a faster spreading variant of the virus and to regain 'normal-life' and freedoms, we must enthusiastically join the government's vaccination programme.
Next the BBC reinforces the "you must be vaccinated" line by targeting elderly people - those aged 70 and over - with the idea that they could die - "these groups account for 88% of deaths so far."
The UK government aims to offer a first vaccine dose to about 32 million people in nine priority groups by 15 April.
The programme in England is now inviting those aged 50 and above to book appointments after the first four groups - those aged 70 and over, care home residents, healthcare workers and people required to shield - were offered a jab by mid-February.
These groups account for 88% of deaths so far.
What the BBC, and indeed all the UK mainstream media, do not tell their readers, are the true risks associated with the COVID-19 vaccinations being offered. Perhaps we should not be surprised because neither does the NHS, the Government, The Department of Health, nor the government's specialist scientific advisors that comprise the SAGE team.
This omission is extraordinary, since the NHS states quite clearly that anyone receiving medical treatment and or medication should be able to make informed of the benefits and risks of the medical procedure and medication offered. The NHS defines this as the ability to make an 'Informed Choice.'
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The COVID-19 vaccination consent form above states "Like all medicines, vaccines can cause side effects. Most of these are mild and short term, and not everyone gets them. Please read the product (vaccine) information for more details on the vaccine and possible side effects by searching Coronavirus Yellow Card. You can also report suspected side effects on the same website or by downloading [the] Yellow Card App."
With carefully crafted words, and the obvious application of behavioural psychology, the leaflet leaves the reader with the impression that the vaccine only produces 'mild short term effects', and it reinforces this idea by failing to even mention the long lists of serious side effects which are listed on the MHRA Yellow Card page, but even then, require considerable searching before the direct link to the data sheets can be found.
As the NHS guidance for 'Operational Considerations of Immunisation' states in the second bullet in the image below: "The 'informed consent' should be recorded (this is a required field on the Pinnacle Point of Care system). The patient should be provided with written information about the vaccination."
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From the above there can be no doubt that the NHS knows and promotes that patients should be able to make 'informed decisions' before consent to any medical intervention, including vaccination. Yet it is very clear from those attending vaccination centres that the staff only speak of mild side effects, and do not provide people with the MHRA Yellow Card Adverse Effects data, even though this covers very serious effects including anaphylaxis, clotting, strokes, heart attacks, neurological problems, blindness, deafness and death.
To add to the NHS deception, those receiving a vaccination are only handed the manufacturers vaccine data sheet after they have received the vaccination. Could this be because after they have taken the vaccine very very few people read the manufacturer's data. If they did of course they would read at least some of the serious side effects, and most importantly would be alerted to the additional risks presented by those who have pre-existing medical conditions and / or allergies.
"What do the public get told then?", is probably the question that comes to the reader's mind. The answer is not a lot. The NHS has this to say:
The vaccines approved for use in the UK have met strict standards of safety, quality and effectiveness set out by the independent Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
Any coronavirus vaccine that is approved must go through all the clinical trials and safety checks all other licensed medicines go through. The MHRA follows international standards of safety.
Other vaccines are being developed. They will only be available on the NHS once they have been thoroughly tested to make sure they are safe and effective.
So far, millions of people have been given a COVID-19 vaccine and reports of serious side effects, such as allergic reactions, have been very rare. No long-term complications have been reported.
We consider the last sentence in the paragraph above to be a deliberately misleading lie, which many would regard as criminal, in that the reality is that a great many people have suffered, and are suffering, very unpleasant and dangerous side effects from the vaccine. In fact all of the adverse side effects stated in the MHRA data base. And again we state here that those side effects include death, heart attacks, abortions, deafness, blindness, clotting, adverse effects of the immune and nervous systems, and many many others.
"Surely that cannot be true?" Is perhaps a likely and immediate response from many people who have, to date, only been informed on vaccine matters by the UK Government, NHS, BBC and other mass media and press outlets. Unfortunately it is true, and it is the government's own data that says so. Data which is deliberately hidden from all those who do not search for it.
Look at these links on the www.gov.uk Yellow Cards section under Covid 19.
How many people even know they are there?????
Vaccine Analysis Profile - Pfizer/BioNTech
Vaccine Analysis Profile - Oxford University/AstraZeneca
Vaccine Analytics Profile - brand unspecified
Yours faithfully,
ANNA Frances
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Dear Anna Frances,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information (FOI) request dated 12 April
2021.
Your exact request was:
“Please provide proof of the manner of Informed consent that has been and
is carried out to all the millions of UK people -ie at what point were
they all shown the Yellow cards reports -and if they were shown was that
before or after the vaccines?This revealing of adverse effects is required
by law to comply legally with Informed consent.”
NHS England holds this information.
The general guidance on consent is within the document Immunisation
Against Infectious Disease (known colloquially as the “Green Book”).
Chapter 2 specifically addresses consent and can be accessed [1]here.
The introduction to Chapter 2 provides a summary of the national guidance
as follows:
Consent must be obtained before starting any treatment or physical
investigation or before providing personal care for a patient. This
includes the administration of all vaccines. The guidance in this chapter
is based both on the current legal position and the standards expected of
health professionals by their regulatory bodies. Further legal
developments may occur after this guidance has been issued and health
professionals should remember their duty to keep themselves informed of
any such developments that may have a bearing on their area of practice.
There is no legal requirement for consent to immunisation to be in writing
and a signature on a consent form is not conclusive proof that consent has
been given, but serves to record the decision and the discussions that
have taken place with the patient or the person giving consent on a
child’s behalf. The giving and obtaining of consent is viewed as a
process, not a one-off event. Consent obtained before the occasion upon
which a child is brought for immunisation is only an agreement for the
child to be included in the immunisation programme and does not mean that
consent is in place for each future immunisation. Consent should still be
sought on the occasion of each immunisation visit.
Consent must be given voluntarily and freely. The individual must be
informed about the process, benefits and risks of immunisation and be able
to communicate their decision. Information given should be relevant to the
individual patient, properly explained and questions should be answered
fully.
Consent remains valid unless the individual who gave it withdraws it. If
there is new information between the time consent was given and when the
immunisation is offered, it may be necessary to inform the patient and for
them to re-confirm their consent. This includes new evidence of risk, new
immunisations (e.g. pneumococcal vaccine) becoming available or where
there is a significant change in the individual’s condition, such as
treatment for cancer.
Within the COVID-19 vaccination programme, specific training and guidance
has been provided to those providing immunisation. This includes but is
not limited to guidance on supporting vaccination of those with learning
disabilities ([2]here) or more general guidance contained within Standard
Operating Procedures ([3]here). Specifically the Standard Operating
Procedure states:
All patients who are able to give informed consent are required to do so,
in order to receive the vaccination. Those being vaccinated should be able
to understand,
retain, use or weigh, and communicate:
• the anticipated benefits of vaccination in the simplest of terms,
• the likely side effects from vaccination and any individual risks they
may run should be addressed, and
• the disbenefits of not consenting to the vaccination.
Chapter 2 of the Green Book states consent must be obtained before
administration of all vaccines. This applies where the patient is able to
give informed consent. The guidance in this chapter is based both on the
current legal position and the standards expected of health professionals
by their regulatory bodies.
There is no legal requirement for consent to immunisation to be in writing
and a signature on a consent form is not conclusive proof that consent has
been given,
but serves to record the decision and the discussions that have taken
place with the patient or in relevant cases, the person giving consent on
a child’s behalf.
The giving and obtaining of consent is viewed as a process, not a one-off
event.
Consent should still be sought on the occasion of each immunisation visit.
Consent must be given voluntarily and freely.
The informed consent should be recorded (this is a required field on
the Outcomes4Health/Pinnacle Point of Care system). The patient should be
provided
with written information about the vaccination.
Consent remains valid unless the individual who gave it withdraws it. If
there is new information between the time consent was given and when the
immunisation is offered, it may be necessary to inform the patient and for
them to re-confirm their consent.
Ultimately it is the responsibility of the clinician taking consent to be
satisfied that necessary professional standards have been met and within
the specifics of the COVID-19 vaccination programme, the requirements of
Public Health England and published NHS England documents, such as those
referred to above.
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