Making decisions : the Government's proposals for making decisions on behalf of mentally incapacitated adults : a report issued in the light of responses to the consultation paper Who decides? / presented to Parliament by the Lord High Chancellor by Command of Her Majesty, October 1999.
- Great Britain. Lord Chancellor's Department.
- Date:
- 1999
Licence: Open Government Licence
Credit: Making decisions : the Government's proposals for making decisions on behalf of mentally incapacitated adults : a report issued in the light of responses to the consultation paper Who decides? / presented to Parliament by the Lord High Chancellor by Command of Her Majesty, October 1999. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![17. An advance statement contains a person’s instructions as to which medical treatment that person would or would not be prepared to accept if he or she should subsequently lose the Sees to decide for Sess or herself. An advance statement can request Sas treatments. 18. Advance statements are sometimes concerned with the rctusal of life sustaining procedures in the event of terminal illness. T e with euthanasia or suicide. They cannot authorise a doctor to do anything SERN is illegal or alt a person agit capacity could not request a doctor to do. Nor can they ask for treatment which is clinically inappropriate. Advance statements are oy a method whereby a person can exercise as or her ps to peas or Pe 19. Adults with capacity have the right to refuse or withdraw their consent to medical treatment. We do not accept that the decision has either to be reasonable or has to be Justified to anyone apart from the individual who is making the decision. It follows that the Government respects the right of people with capacity to be able to define, in advance, which medical procedures they will and will not consent to at a time when that individual has become incapable of HSU or malo a that decision a = fi rtain Ttorms 20. Given the division of opinion which exists on this complex subject and given the flexibility inherent in developing case law, the Government believes that it would not be as ae to Hee at the aie time, and thus fix the statuto y position once and for all. The jernme 1S However, the pevcnen ey to continue to keep the Re. bade concidertionn in the light of future medical and legal developments. 1 ReT (Adult: Refusal of Treatment) [1992] WLR 782 2 Airedale NHS Trust v Bland [1993] AC 789 3 ReC (Adult Refusal of Treatment) [1994] 1 WLR 290](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32221794_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
