PDOC guidance. Royal College of Physicians, 'Prolonged disorders of consciousness following sudden onset brain injury: National clinical guidelines' (2020)

— "These guidelines update the previous RCP’s Prolonged disorders of consciousness, National clinical guidelines (2013) particularly in relation to recent developments in assessment and management: and with respect to recent changes in the law governing procedures for the withdrawal of clinically assisted nutrition and hydration. They lay out for clinicians, service providers and commissioners what constitutes best practice within the existing legal framework, to enable them to fulfil their various responsibilities to the patient and their family."
Full details available at: https://www.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/Royal_College_of_Physicians,_%27Prolonged_disorders_of_consciousness_following_sudden_onset_brain_injury:_National_clinical_guidelines%27_(2020)?id=071224-2151