February 2025

PDOC clinical features

First published: February 22, 2025 Last updated:  February 22, 2025 I have been assessing patients with disordered consciousness since working in neurosurgery in 1976. Initially, most patients were people who soon recovered consciousness. In 1986, I became responsible for the Oxford neurological rehabilitation service at the Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre and, in 1988, community patients at […]

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Prolonged disorders of consciousness (PDOC) services

First published: February 10, 2025 On 6 February 2025, three speakers at a seminar organised by COPPA (the Court of Protection Practitioners Association) considered “Withdrawal of treatment applications in the Court of Protection for patients in PDOC”. While preparing my talk, I published a blog post on being a prolonged disorders of consciousness (PDOC) expert.

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