# Case (Life and death). University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v PK \[2025\] EWCOP 17 (T3)

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— The trust sought a declaration that was is not in the patient's best interests to receive CANH, without which he would have died in a matter of days or weeks, but the judge decided that the treatment remained in his best interests.

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