Oral feeding difficulties and dilemmas: A guide to practical care, particularly towards the end of life

Report of RCP/BSG Working Party

Nil by mouth’ should be a last resort rather than the first option
This is the central message from a Working Party report published today by the Royal College of Physicians in conjunction with the British Society of Gastroenterology. Entitled ‘Oral feeding difficulties and dilemmas: A guide to practical care, particularly towards the end of life’, it has been prepared in response to continuing unease about the lack of consensus, including among doctors, about when artificial nutrition and hydration is appropriate.

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