In whose best interests: Who knows?

Clinical Ethics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 90-93

  Biggs, Hazel ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84992779418     PISSN: 14777509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/147775006777254542     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. GMC. Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Prolonging Treatment: Good Practice and Decision-Making. 2002. Available at http://www.gmcorg. uk
2. R (on the application of Burke) v General Medical Council [2005] 3 WLR 1132, 1142, CA
3. Primarily paras 32 and 81, but paras 38 and 82 were discussed in some detail and paras 13, 16 and 42 were also touched upon
4. n 1 above, para 81
5. n 3 above, at 1143
6. For example: Gillon R. Why the GMC is right to appeal over lifeprolonging treatment. BMJ 2004; 329: 810-1; Samanta A, Samanta J. End of life decisions. BMJ 2005; 331: 1284-5. In addition, interventions in the Appeal proceedings by the Secretary of State for Health, Medical Ethics Alliance, Alert, the British Section of the World Federation of Doctors Who Respect Human Life, the Intensive Care Society and the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales cited in the case at 1144 are evidence of the degree of interests and concern
7. See Re J (A Minor) (Child in Care: Medical Treatment) [1993] Fam 15
8. R (Burke) v GMC [2005] 2 WLR 431, 461-2
9. Gillon, n 9 above, p 811
10. Schloendoerff v Society of New York Hospital 105 NE 92 (NY, 1914)
11. Re T (Adult: Refusal of Medical Treatment) [1992] 4 All ER 64; Re C (Adult: Refusal of Medical Treatment) [1994] 1 All ER 819; Re B (Adult: Refusal of Treatment) sub nom Ms B v 1 NHS Hospital Trust [2002] 2 All ER 449
12. n 3 above, at 1152
13. Re C [1994] n 14 above; Practice Note [1994] 2 All ER 413
14. ss24-26. The Act will come into force in 2007
15. HE v A Hospital NHS Trust [2003] EWHC 1017
16. n 10 above
17. Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 2 All ER 118
18. Re MB (Medical Treatment) [1997] 2 FLR 426, 439 per Butler-Sloss LJ
19. Re A (Male Sterilisation) [2000] 1 FLR 549, 555 per Butler-Sloss LJ
20. Glass v UK [2004] 1 FLR 1019
21. The Intensive Care Society - evidence to the Court of Appeal