# OnCo record lasting-power-of-attorney-health-welfare (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/lasting-power-of-attorney-health-welfare/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "lasting-power-of-attorney-health-welfare" ;
  schema:name "Lasting power of attorney for health and welfare (England and Wales)"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "health and welfare LPA"@en, "lasting power of attorney"@en, "LPA"@en ;
  schema:description "A health and welfare lasting power of attorney lets you choose someone you trust to make decisions about your care, including life-sustaining treatment, if you become unable to decide. It has to be registered before it can be used, which takes weeks, so it is worth doing early."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/lasting-power-of-attorney-health-welfare/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-11-04"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www.gov.uk/power-of-attorney> ;
  onco:tag "supportive", "uk", "carer" ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/advance-care-planning/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/advance-decision-to-refuse-treatment/> .