Parents Fight NHS Gagging Order Over Children’s Deaths

The parents of two children who died after the NHS went to court to withdraw their treatment are locked in a Supreme Court battle with the hospitals for the right to name the doctors involved in their treatment. Two NHS hospital trusts are appealing a High Court decision last year that granted the families of Zainab Abbasi and Isaiah Haastrup the right to name the doctors involved in the decision to withdraw life support for the two very sick children. The court ruled last March that the risk to privacy for the hospital staff was outweighed by the parents’ rights to freedom of speech in being able to tell their story....