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An eight week old baby should no longer be kept alive on a ventilator and should be given palliative care to spare him the risk of a “painful, agonising death,” a High Court judge has declared 1 There are no further treatment options for the baby, who was referred to in court as Z, said Mr Justice Hayden Hayden granted Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust a declaration that it would be in the best interests of the baby to leave intensive care and to have palliative care only Because of the covid-19 pandemic, the hearing was held by video conference, with Z’s parents, who were with him in hospital, joining by telephone
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