Summary
Providing high quality care and treatment for patients coming to the end of their lives is likely to involve making difficult and emotionally challenging decisions. This guidance from the General Medical Council provides a framework to support doctors in meeting the needs of each patient as they come towards the end of their life.
Content
The guidance provides advice on the following subjects:
- making decisions with patients who have capacity
- what to do if your patient doesn’t have capacity
- assessing the overall benefit of treatment
- advanced care planning
- meeting a patients' nutrition and hydration needs
- cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- the role of relatives, partners and others close to the patient
- organ donation and care after death.
Treatment and care towards the end of life: good practice in decision making (15 March 2022)
https://www.gmc-uk.org/ethical-guidance/ethical-guidance-for-doctors/treatment-and-care-towards-the-end-of-life
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