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The ‘process of dying’: update to main text para 15.25, fn2, page 473 NICE guidance (2017) covering the ‘Care of dying adults in the last days of life’ identifies four key elements: ‘Adults who have signs and symptoms that suggest they may be in the last days of life are monitored for further changes to help […]
Best interests: the medical issues; update to main text para 3.26, page 80 A doctor cannot be compelled to treat someone[17]. A court can only consent to treatment to which the patient themselves could have consented. Subject to an administrative court challenge[18], the court cannot compel a Trust to offer a different treatment to a […]
Update to main text para 13.19, page 416: In a fascinating speech, ‘A Matter of Life and Death’, given at Oxford on 11 October 2016[1], Baker J addressed the courts’ current approach to whether or not to permit withdrawal of clinically assisted artificial nutrition and hydration from a patient in a prolonged disorder of consciousness. […]
Update to main text para 13.11, page 399 Mr Briggs[1] was agreed to be in a minimally conscious state; he was clinically stable and not in need of any invasive treatment. His treating team believed that he should be moved to a rehabilitation centre, where he could be monitored and potentially progress to a higher […]