Introducing our free teaching tools

We focus on producing online courses – you can see those course in the side bar. However, we’re also experimenting with producing open-access, interactive, teaching tools or short prompt films for teachers/lecturers/trainers to use themselves (eg in group workshops).

Law and Ethics about life-sustaining treatment

Here are two tools designed to support anyone delivering education in law and medical ethics. We share these under a Creative Commons licence to use and adapt as you wish e.g. for a seminar exercise and discussion.

  • Teaching tool No1 – “Mrs P” – focuses on a severely brain-injured patient and the court hearing about her best interests in relation to clinically assisted nutrition and hydration.
  • Teaching tool No2 is about Mr Paul Briggs

Each teaching tool unpacks some of the arguments presented in the court hearing, summarise key aspects of witness statements and explores the published judgment. The aim is to allow learners to engage with these disputes as dynamic processes and think through some of the ethical and legal principles as they play out in practice.

DoLS

The ‘AGNI’ judgment in the Supreme Court (June 2026) about Deprivation of Liberty necessitated additional updated training about DoLS and has created challenges for BIAs, professional RPRs and for families.

Jenny Kitzinger and Tess Kitzinger collaborated to record some of their discussion of what this meant from their point of view, in relation to their sister Polly. These  short (3 minute) clips are freely available to use in training if they might be userful.

  • Clip DoLS1: Being a family ‘Relevant Person’s Representative’ – Tess talks about the importance of being Polly’s RPR (not ‘just a sister’) and how DoLS can help enable Polly to have choices and is a ‘tiny corner of hope families have for making some changes.” –  at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgmtMvo2Myo
  • Clip DoLS2: ‘Valid Consent’ – Tess reflects on how her profoundly brain-injured sister as become very acquiesent, assents to almost anything and has ceased to complain or express her needs. [link to be inserted here]