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Ms B v An NHS Hospital Trust [2002] EWHC 429 (Fam) is a decision of the United Kingdom High Court of Justice which ruled that if a patient is mentally competent, they have the right to refuse life saving medical treatment.
Okin that a competent person committed to a psychiatric hospital has the right to refuse treatment in non-emergency situations. The case of Rennie v. Klein established that an involuntarily committed individual has a constitutional right to refuse psychotropic medication without a court order. Rogers v.
By effect of this law, the Advance Decision to Refuse Treatment (ADRT) acquired statutory force among doctors, patient and their families. [4] This is for an advanced refusal of life-saving treatment for when the person lacks mental capacity and must be considered to be valid and applicable by the medical staff concerned.
Informed refusal is where a person has refused a recommended medical treatment based upon an understanding of the facts and implications of not following the treatment. [1] [2] Informed refusal is linked to the informed consent process, as a patient has a right to consent, but also may choose to refuse.
Trans patients and staff at NHS gender services have said that cases of people being refused hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or having the medication withdrawn are on the rise.
The Charter of Patients' Rights lists seventeen rights that patients are entitled to: [6] Right to information: Every patient has the right to know what is the illness that they are suffering, its causes, the status of the diagnosis (provisional or confirmed), expected costs of treatment. Furthermore, service providers should communicate this ...
European Court of Human Rights decision in R v Bournewood Community and Mental Health NHS Trust and HL v United Kingdom (2004) 40 EHRR 761: UK law at that time was in breach of article 5(1) of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Outcome was Mental Health Act 2007 and invention of DoLS
A treatment that extends the life of people with advanced breast cancer has been blocked for NHS use in England in a move that potentially impacts thousands of patients.