Had a brief chat re this case with Miss Z the other day and she said that she was involved with a case when she was at a huge south coast hospital / trauma centre and they do so many tests that it is very difficult to get the diagnosis of brain death wrong. As a policy the trust got a second opinion, not from anyone in the trust (no connected hospitals) but from a specialist at a nearby trust so a totally independent assessment can be made - and importantly not in the same chain of command so that there is no peer pressure.
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