The UK Court of Protection has again criticized a hospital for failing to timely bring an application to withdraw life-sustaining treatment.
The latest case concerns OQD, who suffered a 2013 assault that resulted in hypoxic brain damage. He has had a prolonged disorder of consciousness for the last 12 years with no material neurological improvement.
Therefore, it's remarkable that the hospital only now claims that it is in OQD's best interest to withdraw clinically assisted nutrition and hydration. If that is true now, then it was equally true years ago. After all, OQD's condition has not changed.
The Court writes that the hospital failed to consider OQD’s best interests in a “timely and effective manner.” Clinicians abused OQD by continuously administering treatment inconsistent with the patient's best interest.
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