Covid patients wrongly issued with ‘do not resuscitate’ orders, watchdog finds
Doctors made do-not-resuscitate orders for elderly and disabled patients during the pandemic without the knowledge of their families, breaching their human rights, a parliamentary watchdog has said.
In a new report on breaches of the orders during the pandemic, the Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman found failings from at least 13 patient complaints.
The research, carried out with the charity Dignity in Dying, found “unacceptable” s in how end-of-life care
