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Treatment and care towards the end of life: good practice in decision making.
Introduction
New guidance for doctors, Treatment and care towards the end of life: good practice in decision making, came into effect on 1 July 2010.
This guidance replaces the booklet Withholding and withdrawing life-prolonging treatments (2002) (360kb, pdf). It expands on the guidance in Consent, patients and doctors making decisions together, which sets out the principles on which good clinical decisions should be based, and provides a framework for good practice when providing treatment and care for patients who are reaching the end of their lives.
Using the online version of the guidance
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