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Mother of man with severe learning difficulties ‘overjoyed’ after treatment win
The mother of a 29-year-old man with severe learning disabilities and “end-stage” kidney disease is “absolutely overjoyed” after winning a “life-sustaining” treatment fight in a specialist court. Doctors told a judge that autistic Jordan Tooke would need to be sedated in order to be given dialysis three times a week – and argued such moves were not in his best interests.
Wife of brain-damaged pastor loses life-support treatment fight
The wife of an evangelical pastor left with “very significant” brain damage after suffering a stroke while undergoing kidney dialysis 18 months ago has lost a life-support treatment fight. A judge has ruled that medics can lawfully stop providing life-support treatment to the man, who is in his early 50s and in a coma, after a trial in a specialist court. Bosses at a health authority in Manchester, who have responsibility for the man’s care, said treatment should end.
Autistic man should not be forced to undergo kidney dialysis, judge rules
The man’s mother, who has mental health difficulties, did not accept the diagnosis either, the judge was told. Hospital bosses in Nottingham responsible for the man’s treatment had asked Mr Justice Hayden to decide what moves were in his best interests. Ultimately, all I could do was tell him that the decision was his Lawyers representing specialists said “repeated attempts” to explain the “need” for dialysis and the “potentially fatal consequence of not having it” had been unsuccessful.
Parents and grandmother accused of ‘tampering’ with woman’s medical equipment
Lawyers representing an integrated care board with responsibilities for the woman’s treatment have asked a judge in a specialist court to make findings. Mr Justice Hayden is overseeing a hearing in the Court of Protection, where judges analyse issues relating to people who lack the mental capacity to make decisions for themselves, at the Royal Courts of Justice complex in London.
Judge rules that man has mental capacity to refuse hospital treatment
Medics think his problem should be investigated but the man told a judge on Tuesday that he had made an “advance decision” to refuse hospital treatment five years ago. He said he had a hospital “phobia” and did not want to have any kind of invasive treatment. Mr Justice Hayden decided the man had the mental capacity to make such a decision and ruled that his advance decision to refuse treatment was valid.
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