R v Cambridge Health Authority ex p Child B (a minor) [1995] 6 Med LR 250, a local health authority declined to continue further experimental treatment on a young girl dying of myeloid leukaemia. The cost of the treatment was estimated at £75,000 whilst the chances of success were between 10 per cent and 20 per cent. As Sir Thomas Bingham MR stated, to impose an absolute duty on a health authority to provide every treatment available would be unreasonable. Clinical decisions as to treatment should be for [...].
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medical professionals and not the courts
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R v Cambridge Health Authority ex p Child B (a minor) [1995] 6 Med LR 250, a local health authority declined to continue further experimental treatment on a young girl dying of myeloid leukaemia. The cost of the treatment was estimated at £75,000 whilst the chances of success were between 10 per cent and 20 per cent. As Sir Thomas Bingham MR stated, to impose an absolute duty on a health authority to provide every treatment available would be unreasonable. Clinical decisions as to treatment should be for [...].
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R v Cambridge Health Authority ex p Child B (a minor) [1995] 6 Med LR 250, a local health authority declined to continue further experimental treatment on a young girl dying of myeloid leukaemia. The cost of the treatment was estimated at £75,000 whilst the chances of success were between 10 per cent and 20 per cent. As Sir Thomas Bingham MR stated, to impose an absolute duty on a health authority to provide every treatment available would be unreasonable. Clinical decisions as to treatment should be for [...].
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medical professionals and not the courts
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