Making a Will is one thing...

But what if you cannot make decisions about your own medical care?

We are all aware of the recent cases whereby the relatives of the sick have often had to go to court in order to get the level of care they require for their loved ones. The expense and distress caused by this procedure is totally unnecessary if there is an ADVANCE DECISION.

An Advance Decision is a relatively straightforward document in which only becomes effective if you are unable to participate in decisions about your medical care and two doctors are of the opinion that you are unlikely to recover from your condition.

And Advance Decision enables YOU to

ü Make choices about the level of medical treatment that YOU would want should you suffer from a life threatening illness or condition.

ü Appoint somebody to take part in medical decisions on your behalf should you become unable to do so.

ü Make statements that should be considered by those delivering treatment about the treatment that should be delivered.

We urge anyone making an Advance Decision to discuss its content with their General Practitioner or other medical practitioner and advice that the document should be reviewed regularly. 

IMPORTANT

The rules regarding the validity of documents made before 1^st October 2007 change on that date and mean that many such documents, often called Living Wills or Advance Directives will not be legally valid after that date. It is important that anyone with such a document should take advice regarding its validity.

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