Join me in Oxford on June 13, 2025, for the UK Clinical Ethics Network (UKCEN) 23rd Annual Conference. The 2025 theme is “on the edge: end of life and related dilemmas in clinical ethics.”
Medical professionals and clinical ethics committees have long experience and familiarity with questions relating to end of life care - for example, decisions about life sustaining treatment or cardiopulmonary resuscitation. But some cases venture into unfamiliar terrain.
How should professionals respond to patients (with or without terminal illness) who have decided to voluntarily stop eating and drinking? Is anesthesia an ethical option at the end of life for patients who do not wish to suffer? Is it permissible to provide palliative care for patients with treatment resistant mental illness? What questions will clinical ethics committees have to contemplate if assisted suicide becomes lawful in different parts of the UK?
Drawing on expert speakers from UK, Netherlands and US, UKCEN’s 2025 conference, will provide an opportunity for health professionals and clinical ethics committee members to explore these and related questions.
Speakers include:
- Professor Thaddeus Pope. Mitchell Hamline School of Law
- Professor Eduard Verhagen. University Medical Center, Groningen
- Dr Niki Kern, Consultant Psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Dr Jacinta Tan, Consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist
- A/Prof Mehrunisha Suleman, University of Oxford
- Prof Dominic Wilkinson, University of Oxford
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| Jesus College Oxford (conference venue) |
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