Improving decision-making about life-sustaining treatment for patients with severe brain injury

In the days, weeks and early months after injury

Professor Jenny Kitzinger (Co-Director of the Coma and Disorders of Consciousness Research Centre, Cardiff University) and Professor Lynne Turner-Stokes (Northwick Park Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, King’s College London and Director, Regional Hyper-acute Rehabilitation Unit, Northwick Park Hospital).

A workshop bringing together key perspectives from across the fields of medicine, law, sociology and family experience will be held on Thursday 19 March, followed by a public lecture by Professor Turner-Stokes: Contested decision-making about life-sustaining treatment for adults after catastrophic brain injury: Is current law and practice fit for purpose and how can we work together to make it better? More information and registration