As primarily a retrospective service evaluation, the exploration has been registered and approved with Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust clinical governance procedures (AU/002/10/2021). Service user/parental consent was obtained for each individual attending the National FASD Specialist Clinic for their anonymised data to be used in such evaluations to aid learning and to develop the clinic further. From all the cases seen in the National FASD Specialist Clinic since its origin in 2009, only a few cases declined to allow their data to be used for such purposes and were not included. Specific numbers for those declining are not held in the database. The database is ongoing and continues to develop.
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