Medical Treatment in UK Law
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Re J (A Minor) (Wardship: Medical Treatment)
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This gives effect, as it should, to the fact that even very severely handicapped people find a quality of life rewarding which to the unhandicapped may seem manifestly intolerable. But in the end there will be cases in which the answer must be that it is not in the interests of the child to subject it to treatment which will cause increased suffering and produce no commensurate benefit, giving the fullest possible weight to the child's, and mankind's, desire to survive.
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Re A (Medical Treatment: Male Sterilisation)
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Pending the enactment of a check list or other statutory direction it seems to me that the first instance judge with the responsibility to make an evaluation of the best interests of a claimant lacking capacity should draw up a balance sheet. At the end of that exercise the judge should be better placed to strike a balance between the sum of the certain and possible gains against the sum of the certain and possible losses.
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N v Secretary of State for the Home Department
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The essential distinction is not to be found in humanitarian differences. Rather it lies in recognising that article 3 does not require contracting states to undertake the obligation of providing aliens indefinitely with medical treatment lacking in their home countries. Article 3 imposes no such 'medical care' obligation on contracting states. This is so even where, in the absence of medical treatment, the life of the would-be immigrant will be significantly shortened.
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Re L (Medical Treatment: Benefit)
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There is a strong presumption in favour of preserving life, but not where treatment would be futile, and there is no obligation on the medical profession to give treatment which would be futile. I agree with Hedley J that the court should be focussing on best interests rather than the concept of intolerability although the latter may be encompassed within the former.
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Re T (an Adult) (Consent to Medical Treatment)
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Doctors faced with a refusal of consent have to give very careful and detailed consideration to the patient's capacity to decide at the time when the decision was made. What matters is that the doctors should consider whether at that time he had a capacity which was commensurate with the gravity of the decision which he purported to make. The more serious the decision, the greater the capacity required.
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Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v James
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The most that can be said, therefore, is that in considering the best interests of this particular patient at this particular time, decision-makers must look at his welfare in the widest sense, not just medical but social and psychological; they must consider the nature of the medical treatment in question, what it involves and its prospects of success; they must consider what the outcome of that treatment for the patient is likely to be; they must try and put themselves in the place of the individual patient and ask what his attitude to the treatment is or would be likely to be; and they must consult others who are looking after him or interested in his welfare, in particular for their view of what his attitude would be.
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GS (India), EO (Ghana), GM (India), PL (Jamaica), BA (Ghana) & KK (DRC) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department
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Secondly, where article 8 is engaged by other factors, the fact that the claimant is receiving medical treatment in this country which may not be available in the country of return may be a factor in the proportionality exercise; but that factor cannot be treated as by itself giving rise to a breach since that would contravene the "no obligation to treat" principle.
- The Income Tax (Recommended Medical Treatment) Regulations 2014
- The Mental Health (Certificates for Medical Treatment) (Scotland) Regulations 2017
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Coronavirus Act 2020
... ... 2002/254) ... 3: Emergency arrangements concerning medical practitioners: Wales ... been infected or contaminated,(b) relates to diagnosis, care or treatment and is provided in consequence of another person who usually provides such ... ...
- The Adults with Incapacity (Requirements for Signing Medical Treatment Certificates) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2012
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From ‘Doctor Knows Best’ to Dignity: Placing Adults Who Lack Capacity at the Centre of Decisions About Their Medical Treatment
In 1989, the House of Lords first derived a ‘best interests’ test for the medical treatment of adults who lack capacity from the doctrine of necessity and, now codified, the test continues to apply...
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Doctors as Good Samaritans: Some Empirical Evidence Concerning Emergency Medical Treatment in Britain
This paper reports the results of the first survey of British doctors' attitudes towards the provision of emergency treatment outside the usual confines of a surgery or hospital. The experience and...
- Medical Treatment and the Chain of Causation
- Religious Beliefs and Teenage Refusal of Medical Treatment
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Apply to make decisions on someone's behalf (personal welfare)
Court of Protection forms including the COP1 application to make decisions on someone's behalf.... ... This application relates to: ... Serious medical treatment ... Enclose COP3 or alternative evidence of capacity ... ...
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personal welfare application (COP GN4)
Court of Protection forms including the COP1 application to make decisions on someone's behalf.... ... • make decisions in relation to serious medical ... treatment cases, which relate to providing, ... withdrawing or ... ...
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Mental Health Tribunal forms including application and pre-hearing examination forms.... ... about hospital or community ... treatment ... The mental health tribunal hears from ... the patient as well as ... The tribunal cannot change a patient’s ... medical treatment ... You will be told in person on the day ... what the tribunal ... ...
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Provide supplemental information when making or responding to allegations of harm and domestic violence
Standard directions forms under the Children Act.... ... “Harm” means ill treatment or damage to health and development, including, for example, damage ... questions e.g. about education, ... medical treatment or a foreign holiday ... or visit where parents or those with ... ...