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