Advanced Directive

Hi  and welcome to the Online Community, although I am sorry to see you finding us and so sorry to hear that you have just been diagnosed.

I had a look using the search tool on the main Macmillan site and there is lots of info about Advanced Directive but could not see a link to downloadable forms. But as we have just done this for my mum the forms are available on the UK.GOV website.

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All the very best.

Hi there..Many thanks for your swift reply.

There doesn't appear to be a link, so I went to NHS site and followed a link on there, a friend is printing it for me and I'll complete it tomorrow and photocopy Monday, for distribution. That's the first on an unimaginably long 'to do' list, before the op renders me incapable of doing much for weeks!

Kind regards

An4nacronym

Hi

Appears I might be too late in sending this to you as I've been filling forms to see how easy they are to do, and they  appear to be quite simple especially the one in Advance decision pack England and Wales and Scotland which is slightly different see also the Northern Ireland note, all below 

Macmillans info advance care England and Wales 

Decision to refuse care NHS

Advance Decision Pack England and Wales 

Advance Decision Scotland

The law in different Northern Ireland 

Planning your care Northern Ireland

There is always the lasting power of attorney section on health but it is more legal and needs to be registered and can be costly depending on the way you go to prepare one, but no matter which way you complete the LPoA forms there is a cost for registering each form for health and finance.

Apologies if this has arrived too late for you and you've already got everything in hand but it may be of help to others.

Let's hope you never have to use your decision for a very long time.

Ian

Thanks Ian, Good of you to do this, much appreciated! Kind regards..Di