How has the pandemic affected your specialty? What have been the main challenges?
It has made us all quite tired and sometimes emotional if I am honest. I was asked to write an article for the Telegraph recently, and one patient’s experience in particular kept coming back to me, which I think I will never forget. The challenge of not having visitors and family by the bedside has been enormous.
I remember at the start of the pandemic through my work with the European Association for Palliative Care I saw what was happening in other countries like Italy and Spain and that was quite frightening. A few colleagues, including Simon Tavabie, wrote an article about this time of preparation, entitled Waiting for the storm, which felt like a very apt description.
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.
By I. Stephanie Boyce2021-05-10T13:12:00+01:00
On 20 April, we responded to the UK government’s White Paper on reforming the Mental Health Act (MHA), welcoming efforts to tackle such a complicated area of law, but cautioning that the UK government must ensure the system works for those it is trying to help.
I. Stephanie Boyce
Source: Darren Filkins
The latest response follows a five year inquiry by the UK government to reform the MHA, including the
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White Paper on reforming the MHA was published on 13 January this year and lays out the UK government’s plans for changes to the MHA, which accept the majority of the independent review’s recommendations, and contains questions on areas where the UK government still wants to hear additional opinions.
Brother and sister inâbitterâ family feud over late mother s will given chance to settle A BROTHER and sister have been offered the chance to settle a “bitter” family feud over their mother’s will without a further costly High Court case. John Clitheroe launched an appeal calling for his mother’s two wills to be reinstated after they were struck out by a judge. His mother Jean Clitheroe, from Clacton, died aged 76 in 2017, leaving most of her £325,000 estate to John. She had made two wills, but her daughter Susan Bond, from St Osyth, was cut out of both. Mr Clitheroe started court proceedings to determine if the wills, which included handwritten instructions stating her daughter was “a shopaholic and would just fritter it away”, were valid.
Brother and sister in âbitterâ feud over mother s will given chance to settle A BROTHER and sister have been offered the chance to settle a “bitter” family feud over their mother’s will without a further costly High Court case. John Clitheroe launched an appeal calling for his mother’s two wills to be reinstated after they were struck out by a judge. His mother Jean Clitheroe, from Clacton, died aged 76 in 2017, leaving most of her £325,000 estate to John. She had made two wills, but her daughter Susan Bond, from St Osyth, was cut out of both. Mr Clitheroe started court proceedings to determine if the wills, which included handwritten instructions stating her daughter was “a shopaholic and would just fritter it away”, were valid.