“He deserves a chance”? Continuities and shifts in decision-making about life-sustaining treatment

Kitzinger, Jenny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2593-8033 2022. “He deserves a chance”? Continuities and shifts in decision-making about life-sustaining treatment. [Online]. Open Justice Court of Protection Project. Available at: https://openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2022/12/1...

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Abstract

Mr P, an active and relatively healthy middle-aged man, had a heart attack at home on 3 September 2021 ...The medical evidence (from his clinical team and from two independent experts) is that P is currently completely unaware of himself or his environment and has been for the last 15 months. He is in a ‘vegetative state’ (one of the sub-categories of PDoC). ... I describe the efforts by everyone involved to try to work out P’s best interests and specifically what P might want in his current situation. This work was done by family and friends on the one hand, and the clinical team/Trust and the Official Solicitor, on the other. Attempts to determine what he might want built on the same evidence (medical information combined with testimony about P’s values and how he lived his life) but different parties had come to different conclusions. I conclude by reflecting on how this hearing is situated within the context of changing professional guidance/practice and case law over the last few years (including the ground-breaking Supreme Court judgment in Re Y (An NHS Trust & Ors v Y [2-18] UKSC 46).

Item Type:	Website Content
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Journalism, Media and Culture
Publisher:	Open Justice Court of Protection Project
Last Modified:	20 Jan 2023 10:50
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/156102

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