Application to have Covid vaccine given to man with severe disabilities
Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent England and Wales Court of Protection case which dealt with an application by a health body to be allowed to administer a Covid 19 vaccine to a man with serious disabilities
In March 2021, the Manchester County Court (Court of Protection) delivered its judgment in a case in which it had to determine whether it was in the best interests of a man with severe disabilities to have a declaration made to enable a Clinical Commissioning Group (‘CCG’) to administer a vaccination to him against Covid 19. It was not in dispute that the man, who is in his early thirties, lacked capacity to make that decision for himself.