View source for United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust v N (2014) EWCOP 16, (2014) MHLO 51

"The critical decision is whether it is in N's best interests to continue invasive, risk laden, medical care as would be involved in a further attempt at artificial feeding. I am utterly convinced that it would not. Accordingly, I declare that it is lawful and in her best interests for the clinicians (a) not to make any further attempt to secure a means of providing artificial nutrition; (b) to withdraw the provision of intravenous fluids and dextrose; and (c) to provide such palliative care and related treatment (including pain relief) as considered appropriate to ensure she suffers the least distress and retains the greatest dignity until such time as her life comes to an end." 

==39 Essex Street==
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[http://www.mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk/a-melancholy-but-profound-milestone/ Alex Ruck Keene, 'A melancholy but profound milestone' (Mental Capacity Law and Policy, 24/7/14)]†. This article describes the court's best interests decision on artificial nutrition and hydration as momentous because of its approach to a patient in a minimally-conscious state.

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