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Medical advances mean that increasing numbers of people survive physical injury, stroke, periods of low oxygenation and severe brain infections. Some, however, are left with substantially reduced consciousness. This paper discusses the medical, ethical and commissioning challenges associated with the care of patients in vegetative and minimally conscious states, and...

Type
POSTnotes
Date
26 July 2022
Reference
POST-PN-0674

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds in the number of people in a permanent vegetative state in the UK; and how many such people are cared for by the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Asked by
Lord Soames of Fletching (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
12 October 2016
Reference
47148
House
House of Commons

Mental Capacity Bill. Lords third reading debate. Passed on question and returned to the Commons with amendments.

Lead member
Baroness Ashton of Upholland
Answering member
Earl Howe
Department
Department for Constitutional Affairs
Type
Debates on bills
Date
24 March 2005
Reference
671 c412-59
House
House of Lords

Mental Capacity Bill. Lords Report stage second day.

Department
Department of Health; Department for Constitutional Affairs
Type
Debates on bills
Date
17 March 2005
Reference
670 c1441-76,1483-554
House
House of Lords

Mental Capacity Bill. Lords Committee stage first day. Clauses 1,2,3,5,6 agreed to. Clause 4 agreed to as amended. New clause considered.

Department
Department for Constitutional Affairs
Type
Debates on bills; Committee of the Whole House (HL)
Date
25 January 2005
Reference
668 c1143-209,1225-56
House
House of Lords

Mental Capacity Bill. Programme motion (No 3) on Consideration and Third Reading agreed to on question. Report stage debate. New clause 1 negatived on division (203 to 297). New clause 2 negatived on division (198 to 296). New clause 3 debated and withdrawn. New clause 5 negatived on division (106...

Lead member
David Lammy
Answering member
Dominic Grieve
Department
Department of Health; Department for Constitutional Affairs
Type
Debates on bills
Date
14 December 2004
Reference
428 c1531-641;428 c1529-639
House
House of Commons

Mental Capacity Bill. Committee stage seventh sitting (morning). New clause considered. Clauses 24 to 27 agreed to.

Type
Public Bill Committee proceedings; Debates on bills
Date
28 October 2004
Reference
SCA
House
House of Commons

Mental Capacity Bill. Committee stage first sitting (morning). Programme resolution agreed to. Clause 1 under consideration.

Type
Public Bill Committee proceedings; Debates on bills
Date
19 October 2004
Reference
SCA
House
House of Commons

Mental Capacity Bill. Second reading debate. Agreed to on division (326 to 62). Programme motion on proceedings in Committee, on Report, Third reading and any other proceedings. Agreed to on division (289 to 106). Money resolution agreed to on question (formal). Carry over motion agreed to on question (formal). Relevant...

Lead member
David Lammy
Answering member
Lord Boswell of Aynho
Department
Department for Constitutional Affairs
Type
Debates on bills
Date
11 October 2004
Reference
425 c22-122
House
House of Commons

Whether the use within the National Health Service of the adjective "vegetative" to describe a long-term clinical state from which some patients recover in whole or in part is discriminatory towards those patients. [HL 3270].

Asked by
Lord Patten (Conservative)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
28 June 2004
Reference
HL 3270; 663 c7WA
House
House of Lords

Witholding and withdrawing life-prolonging treatments: good practice in decision-making. GMC. 2002.

Deposited by
Department of Health
Type
Deposited papers
Date
5 May 2004
Reference
Dep 04/923
House
House of Commons; House of Lords

Whether the withdrawal or withholding of nutrition and hydration delivered by artificial means from mentally incapacitated patients with persistent vegetative state and other similar conditions can only be authorised on application to the courts. [HL 2453].

Asked by
Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
29 April 2004
Reference
HL 2453; 660 c92WA
House
House of Lords

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many requests for withdrawal of food and fluid to patients in permanent vegetative state have been (a) made and (b) refused in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement. - Inc table.

Asked by
Nick Harvey (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 February 2004
Reference
417 c1208W; 152772
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been prevented from committing suicide in 2003; how many people are in a persistent vegetative state as a result of attempting to hang themselves in prisons. - Inc figures and fact that Prison Health do not...

Asked by
Rudi Vis (Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
7 January 2004
Reference
416 c421-2W; 145088;145092
House
House of Commons

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, in how many cases the courts have (a) considered and (b) agreed to the withdrawal of nutrition and hydration for patients in a persistent vegetative state since the Bland judgement. - Including figures.

Asked by
Andrew Selous (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
26 February 2002
Reference
34095; 380 c1186W;380 c1189W
House
House of Commons

When a case involving an application for permission to withdraw life support from a patient in a permanent vegetative state last came before a United Kingdom court, and what was the court's decision; whether any case of this kind has previously gone before the European Court on Human Rights in...

Asked by
Unknown (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
19 October 2000
Reference
617 c101WA
House
House of Lords

That this House notes admissions by leading members of the euthanasia lobby such as Professor Sheila McLean that the withdrawal of treatment, including food and fluid, to end the lives of PVS patients and others who are not dying endorses 'a form of non-voluntary euthanasia'; regrets that the Department of...

Primary sponsor
Ann Winterton (Conservative)
Type
Early day motions
Date
8 May 2000
Reference
693
House
House of Commons

Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill. Second reading debate. Motion that the question be now put agreed to on division (113 to 2). Main questions agreed to. Committed to a Standing Committee.

Lead member
Ann Winterton
Answering member
Yvette Cooper
Department
Department of Health
Type
Debates on bills
Date
28 January 2000
Reference
343 c686-751
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to introduce legislation requiring that the withdrawal of food and fluid from persistent vegetative state patients be subject to a court order but otherwise following the Guideline of the British Medical Association on the withdrawal of treatment.

Asked by
David Amess (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 November 1999
Reference
97097; 337 c480W
House
House of Commons

What are the implications for their policy of opposition to euthanasia of: (a) the recent document 'Withholding and Withdrawing Life Prolonging Medical Treatment', produced by the British Medical Association; (b) those sections of the Incapable Adults (Scotland) Bill recently introduced into the Scottish Parliament providing for the definition of assisted...

Asked by
Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 November 1999
Reference
HL 3386; 606 c123WA
House
House of Lords