Patients suffering from brain damage have lost an ‘important safeguard’ that protects their lives, campaigners said in response to a Supreme Court decision on 30 July.
The judge ruled that if families and doctors agree to withdraw food and fluids, they can do so without a court’s permission.
Case of ‘Mr Y’
The court was considering the case of a man, ‘Mr Y’, who had a cardiac arrest leading to brain damage.
