End of Life Care
Advanced Decisions & Advance Care Planning
Doctors are bound by professional and legal obligations in end of life decisions. They may wish to be actively involved in discussing these issues and helping patients to draw up an Advance Directive or an Advance Care Plan. They may wish to witness the resultant documentation, but they are...
End of Life Care
The GMC guidance Treatment and care towards the end of life: good practice in decision making updated in March 2022, replaces the guidance ' Withholding and withdrawing life-prolonging treatments: (2002) ' and expands on the guidance in 'Seeking patients' consent: the ethical considerations...
Information Governance - Requests for Information from Dignitas
We have been made aware that Dignitas may contact a patients GP for information if that patient contacts them considering assisted suicide. How should you respond? The Suicide Act provides that 'a person who aids, abets, counsels or procures the suicide of another, or an attempt by another to...
Medical Examiner & Death Certificates - Audio & Video Podcasts and Recorded Webinars
You can record your reflections on this form or via your learning diary here: https://www.fourteenfish.com/about/learningdiary CQC are particularly keen to see any evidence of your learning and how you apply it. Changes to the MCCD (Medical Certificate of Cause of Death) - 30th March 2022 Dr...
Tissue / Organ Donation
The majority of people are in favour of donation regardless of ethnicity or religious preference and generally family members are not distressed by being asked about donation, they value the opportunity to consider this option. It is important that people are given the opportunity to express...
