By Press Association 2021
Pippa Knight legal case
A specialist caring for a brain-damaged five-year-old girl at the centre of a High Court life-support dispute has told a judge that doctors would keep treating the youngster if they thought she would recover.
But she told Mr Justice Poole that there was no evidence to suggest that Pippa Knight, who is in a vegetative state, was going to improve.
Doctors treating Pippa at the Evelina Children’s Hospital in London say life-support treatment should end.
Hospital bosses have asked Mr Justice Poole to rule that ending treatment, and allowing Pippa to die, would be lawful and in her best interests.
Right to die case: Brain-damaged girl will not recover
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image captionDoctors argue there is no hope Pippa Knight s condition will improve and she should be allowed to die
A doctor caring for a brain-damaged girl at the centre of a High Court case over whether life-saving treatment should continue, has said her condition will not improve.
Doctors treating Pippa Knight at the Evelina London Children s Hospital say she should be allowed to die.
The girl s mother, Paula Parfitt, 41, wants doctors to allow her to be treated at her home in Strood, Kent.
But the doctor said 15 nurses would be needed to care for Pippa at home.
Judge visits brain-damaged girl from Strood at centre of High Court life-support dispute
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Updated: 16:49, 15 December 2020
A High Court judge asked to decide whether a brain-damaged five-year-old girl from Strood should be allowed to die has visited the youngster in hospital.
Doctors treating Pippa Knight, who is in a vegetative state at the Evelina Childrenâs Hospital in London, say life-support treatment should end.
Paula Parfitt with daughter Pippa Knight. Picture: (Sinclairslaw/PA)
Hospital bosses have asked Mr Justice Poole to rule that ending treatment, and allowing Pippa to die, would be lawful and in the girlâs best interests.
Pippaâs mother, Paula Parfitt, 41, from Strood, disagrees.
Doctors treating Pippa Knight at the Evelina Children s Hospital in London say life-support treatment should end.
Little Pippa is in a vegetative state and on life support after Flu A left her brain damaged in January last year.
Hospital bosses have asked Mr Justice Poole to rule that the little girl, who is in a vegatative state, should be allowed to die.
Pippa s mother, Paula Parfitt, 41, of Strood, Kent, wants her life support to continue so the five-year-old can take advantage of future advances in medical science.
Little Pippa Knight, of Medway, Kent, has been on life support at the Evelina Hospital in London since Flu A left her brain damaged in January last year
Mother of girl at centre of life-support fight says she will not give up
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14 December 2020, 1:21 pm
A single mother whose five-year-old daughter is in a vegetative state and at the centre of a life-support treatment dispute has told a High Court judge that she will not give up.
Doctors treating Pippa Knight at the Evelina Children’s Hospital in London say life-support treatment should end and hospital bosses have asked Mr Justice Poole to rule that the little girl should be allowed to die.
Pippa’s mother, Paula Parfitt, 41, of Strood, Kent, disagrees.
Pippa Knight with her mother
Mr Justice Poole is considering evidence at a public hearing in the Family Division of the High Court in London on Monday.He has been told that Pippa’s father is dead.