I am watching with interest the Great Ormond Street Hospital vs the parents of Charlie Gard, and the question i would like answering is who is paying for this court case, i fear that ultimately it will be paid for by the charitable donations made by people to help sick children, the thing that strikes me is that if the hospital has to pay for this court case out of their tax payer grant then they will end up topping up their depleted government funds by using the charitable donations, surely this is not what the people who made donations had in mind when giving the money.
I am also minded by the Ashya King case where the parents removed Ashya from Southampton General Hospital to take him abroad to get a treatment the hospital said would not be applicable, however it was subsequently proved to be highly effective.
Finally anyone who has had any experience of the way that institutions work in this country will be aware that they will go to any lengths to justify their decisions right or wrong and be dammed the consequences, I worry that the professionals in this case could be blocking the alternative treatments offered by the American doctors as this would leave them with egg on their faces if they were shown to be wrong, I do hope it is the doctors making the decisions and not some administrator with a different agenda.