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  • A stroke survivor who repeatedly told carers that he wanted to die should not have his artificial feeding withdrawn, a High Court judge has ruled 1 In one of the first High Court cases to be heard by Skype because of the covid-19 pandemic, Mr Justice Mostyn decided that it would not be in the best interests of the man, referred to as AF, to be allowed to die The CCG and the local authority took a neutral stance on the issue in the case, but AF’s daughter, SJ, strongly argued that he would not want to be kept alive in his grossly incapacitated state An additional reason, he said, was that the court had been told that no palliative support would be available for AF, either in the home or in a hospice, in the current national medical emergency 1 A Clinical Commissioning Group v AF (by his litigation friend, the Official Solicitor), SJ, A GP and A Local Authority
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  • BMJ
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  • unk
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  • WHO
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  • Stroke survivor should not have feeding tube withdrawn, rules judge in case heard by Skype
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  • #824610
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  • 2020

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