Table of contents

Disorders of consciousness

• Persistent vegetative state and minimally conscious state: ethical, legal and practical dilemmas (29 June, 2017)

  Lindy Willmott, Ben White
• A matter of life and death (23 June, 2017)

  Justice Baker
• Procedure, practice and legal requirements: a commentary on ‘Why I wrote my advance decision’ (21 October, 2016)

  Alexander Ruck Keene
• Back to the bedside? Making clinical decisions in patients with prolonged unconsciousness (8 August, 2016)

  Derick Wade
• When ‘Sanctity of Life’ and ‘Self-Determination’ clash: Briggs versus Briggs [2016] EWCOP 53 – implications for policy and practice (22 June, 2017)

  Jenny Kitzinger, Celia Kitzinger, Jakki Cowley
• Can ‘Best Interests’ derail the trolley? Examining withdrawal of clinically assisted nutrition and hydration in patients in the permanent vegetative state (31 August, 2016)

  Zoe Fritz
• Commentary on Derick Wade's ‘Back to the bedside? Making clinical decisions in patients with prolonged unconsciousness’ and Zoe Fritz’ ‘Can ‘Best Interests’ derail the trolley?’ Examining withdrawal of clinically assisted nutrition and hydration in patients in the permanent vegetative state  (31 August, 2016)

  Stephen Holland
• Withdrawal of clinically assisted nutrition and hydration decisions in patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness: best interests of the patients and advance directives are the keys (17 November, 2016)

  N Lejeune
• Causes and consequences of delays in treatment-withdrawal from PVS patients: a case study of Cumbria NHS Clinical Commissioning Group v Miss S and Ors [2016] EWCOP 32

  (23 September, 2016)

  Jenny Kitzinger, Celia Kitzinger
• A matter of life and death: controversy at the interface between clinical and legal decision-making in prolonged disorders of consciousness (16 December, 2016)

  Lynne Turner-Stokes
• Withdrawing clinically assisted nutrition and hydration (CANH) in patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness: is there still a role for the courts? (14 June, 2017)

  Veronica English, Julian C Sheather
• The ethics of and the appropriate legislation concerning killing people and letting them die: a response to Merkel (22 March, 2017)

  Hugh V McLachlan
• CPR decision making: why Winspear needs to be challenged? (22 March, 2017)

  Rosemarie Anthony-Pillai