Last month, the United Kingdom's highest court ruled that doctors may withdraw artificially administered nutrition and hydration from critically ill patients without a court's permission. Now, the newly proposed BMA guidelines seek to massively expand the range of patients eligible for the removal such services that could otherwise keep them alive for years.

The proposals, which would affect patients with severe degenerative diseases or advanced dementia, were put forward after Britain's highest court ruled last month that qualified National Health Service staff and officials will no longer require a court's permission to withdraw life-sustaining food and water from critically ill patients who are unable to communicate or feed themselves. Qualified doctors can now act on their own authority in these cases, provided they have the explicit permission of the patient's family or, in cases where family is not present, medical proxy.

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But the new guidelines wouldn't require that a patient be in a near-death, minimally conscious or vegetative state in order for a doctor to make life-ending decisions. The BMA draft proposals mention "those patients who have a recognized degenerative condition—such as advanced dementia, Parkinson's or Huntington's disease—that is likely to result in the patient being unable to take sufficient nutrition orally."

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