NHS trust involved in legal battle with woman over her treatment can be named

A High Court judge has lifted an order banning the naming of an NHS trust which cared for a 19 year old woman at the centre of a court battle over her treatment. But he ruled that clinicians who looked after her may not be named until November, after a “cooling off period.”1Mr Justice Peel identified University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust as the trust which wanted to offer palliative care only to Sudiksha Thirumalesh. He ruled that any expert witnesses in the case could be identified immediately, but the clinicians who cared for her in intensive care for a year may not be named until eight weeks after her death on 12 September.Thirumalesh, who had mitochondrial depletion syndrome, wanted to go to Canada or the US to take part in one of three trials of experimental nucleoside treatment. Her parents wanted to be able to name her and crowdfund…
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