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40.13. Clinical safeguards include confirmation of a detainee’s capacity to understand the consequences of his/her voluntary refusal of nourishment by at least one other independent physician.

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40.14. Physicians have complete clinical independence in deciding upon the care of a person on hunger strike.

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40.04. There are effective procedures for identifying personal factors, including clinical depression, that may put individual detainees at risk of hunger strike.

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40.05. There are effective procedures for identifying, anticipating, preparing for and monitoring conditions or high-risk events that may provide triggers for hunger strike.

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40.06. There is a protocol for clinical management and care of detainees who refuse food and/or fluids and for the recovery and psychological care of those who have ceased hunger strike.

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40.07. Physicians are familiar with international guidelines on the ethics of clinical management of hunger strikers and act accordingly.

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40.01. The suicide prevention policy addresses the issue of hunger strikes, which are a form of protest, separately.

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40.02. Food refusal is always taken seriously by staff and a care and support plan initiated.

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40.03. A meals register is used to record meal attendance and staff note carefully and unobtrusively non-attendance or other fasting.

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