Awareness of living wills in the United Kingdom

Awareness of living wills in the United Kingdom.

SIR—We read with interest the results of questionnaire survey of British geriatricians regarding ‘Living wills and the Mental Capacity Act’ by Schiff et al. [1]. It is good to know that geriatricians favoured the use of living wills and that many had come across living wills while caring patients and felt it helped in end-of-life care planning. We too feel that people in the United Kingdom have...

Awareness and politics of venous thromboembolism in the United kingdom.

Beginnings “Education, education, education.” Tony Blair, British Prime Minister, 1997 to 2007. In September 2000 the death of a 28-year-old woman, Emma Kristofferson, who collapsed and died from a pulmonary embolism after leaving a 20-hour flight from Sydney to Heathrow airport provoked a media furor. Since that time there have been numerous articles in the British press about travel & deep ve...

Cochlear implants in the United Kingdom: Awareness and utilization

INTRODUCTION Every child and adult in the United Kingdom who fulfils the criteria for cochlear implantation is entitled to receive treatment under the National Health Service (NHS); children since 2009 are eligible for bilateral simultaneous implants and adults single implants unless they have additional sensory needs. HISTORY During a period between 1982 and 1990, when a number of individual...

Living wills and religious communities.

Advance directives and living wills.

The article focuses on the philosophical, ethical and juridical problems concerning Advance directives and Living Wills (underlining analogies and differences). The author makes a critical comparison between the theories supporting Living Wills (the liberal theory appealing to the principle of self-determination and the utilitarian theory on the "quality of life") and the reasons against them (...