Clinical ethics symposium: "Taking a risk? When is it ethical for patients to be fed 'at risk'?"
A patient has been assessed to be at risk of choking and aspirating, but they (or their surrogate decision-maker) has expressed a strong wish to continue oral feeding? What should the clinical team do?

There is a medical risk – of aspirating, but what is the ethical, and legal risk if oral feeding proceeds?

Must clinical teams always follow the patient’s wishes? (What if they are administering the feeds?) Can individuals or teams or institutions refuse to support risk feeding?

In this clinical ethics symposium, specialists in gastroenterology, palliative care, clinical ethics and medical law discuss these and related questions.

Sponsored by The Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and UK Clinical Ethics Network
Date: 11 October 2024, 13:30 (Friday, 0th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: OxHEC, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford, OX3 9DU
Speakers: Prof Dominic Wilkinson, Dr Tina Kauchenen (John Radcliffe Hospital, Speech and Language Team, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust), Dr Helen Turnham (Consultant in Paediatric Critical Care, Oxford), Alex Ruck Keene KC
Organising department: Faculty of Philosophy
Organiser: Rachel Gaminiratne (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)
Organiser contact email address: rachel.gaminiratne@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Host: Prof Dominic Wilkinson
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/event/clinical-ethics-symposium-taking-a-risk-when-is-it-ethical-for-patients-to-be-fed-at-risk
Cost: £10 for doctors, £5 nurses/ AHP/Students (Please email and provide details of your work role if you would like one of the discounted places)
Audience: This event is aimed at clinicians and those in related professions/academic fields
Editor: Liz Sanders