As part of a team (Dr Gareth Owen (psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience), Dr Tania Gergel (mental health ethics), Dr Larry Rifkin (psychiatry, … Read More ›
Tag: advance care planning
Introduction Two recent press stories have – whether deliberately or not – cast very unhelpful doubt upon the status of advance decisions to refuse life … Read More ›
As part of a team (Dr Gareth Owen (psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience), Dr Tania Gergel (mental health ethics), Dr Larry Rifkin (psychiatry, South … Read More ›
The British Medical Association (BMA), the Resuscitation Council (UK), and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) have today (3o June) issued updated guidance regarding anticipatory decisions about … Read More ›
In a case that appeared on Baillii this morning, Keehan J came tantalisingly close to giving the answer to a question that has been exercising me for some … Read More ›
A report has just been published by the Public Policy Institute for Wales for the Welsh Minister for Health and Social Services on how to … Read More ›
Following up the publication of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST)’s excellent Note on Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States, available here, POST have … Read More ›
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust v RC [2014] EWHC 1317 (COP) Summary This is the sequel to the case of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust v J [2014] … Read More ›
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Foundation Trust v LM [2014] EWHC 454 (COP) (Peter Jackson J) Summary This case concerns the lawfulness of withholding blood transfusions from a gravely … Read More ›