Legal decisions on longstanding severe eating disorders.
editorial · Level V
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1192/bjp.2025.10490.
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Abstract
The treatment of longstanding severe eating disorders is a public concern amid rising service pressures and legal cases. These cases raise complex issues about the interface between legislative schemes, restrictive practices, best interests, treatment refusal and potential interaction with assisted dying legislation, when patients lack capacity yet clearly express wishes.
Medical subject headings
- Feeding and Eating Disorders
- Mental Competency
- Suicide, Assisted