Hundreds of care home residents had Do Not Resuscitate orders imposed on them without their consent during the pandemic, a damning report reveals today. The care watchdog investigated the ‘blanket use’ of the notices in social care amid the crisis and highlighted 508 cases which may have breached human rights law. The Care Quality Commission … Read more
‘Do Not Resuscitate’ orders are being ILLEGALLY put on files of adult patients with learning difficulties, charity warns MPs ordered urgent review into ‘appalling’ practice, calling for end by Christmas Learning disability charity told MPs those they helped were ‘not valued as equal’ Doctors take the final responsibility for issuing a Do Not Attempt Resuscitation … Read more
An 11-year-old boy and cancer patients are among the vulnerable children whose parents are being asked to sign do not resuscitate forms. GPs asked Ilhan Ates-Suddes’s mother Margaret, from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, to fill out an order for if he catches coronavirus in a move she branded inhumane. Meanwhile a 16-year-old boy was called by his doctor surgery … Read more
‘It was like having my death warrant sent by the grim reaper’: Fury as GP surgery asks patients with serious health problems to sign ‘do not resuscitate’ forms so medics will not be called if they fall ill with coronavirus Llynfi Surgery in Maesteg, South Wales sent out the letter to seriously ill patients Terminal … Read more