DNR orders being ILLEGALLY put on files of patients with learning difficulties, charity warns

‘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

Boy, 11, and cancer patients among those whose parents are being asked to sign DNR forms

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

GP surgery sends out letter asking terminally ill patients to sign DNR notices

‘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