A mother’s fight for her child’s life leads to better guidance on parental consent to treatment
Doctors thought David Glass was dying – but his mother, Carol, did not think so. The European court ruled that the UK medical authorities should have sought approval from the courts before giving David treatment that Carol had not agreed to. The judgment led the UK to update its guidance on consent to treatment in circumstances when parents object to the proposed treatment of their children.
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Although there is no specific right to health in the European Convention on Human Rights, a wide range of issues relating to health have been dealt with by the European court.
The court’s case-law requires states to safeguard people’s mental and physical well-being in many different circumstances.
This includes making sure that people can access
the healthcare they need, they have a say in the treatment they receive and they can get justice when mistakes are made.
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