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Over 75? Sign here if you’re ready for death: GPs to ask ALL older patients if they’ll agree to a ‘do not resuscitate’ order
- New NHS guidelines urge GPs to draw up end-of-life plans for over 75s
- Also applies to younger patients with serious conditions, such as cancer
- Told to ask if patients wants doctors to resuscitate them if health worsens
- Medical professionals say it is ‘blatantly wrong’ and will frighten elderly
By Sophie Borland for the Daily Mail
Doctors are being told to ask all patients over 75 if they will agree to a ‘do not resuscitate’ order.
New NHS guidelines urge GPs to draw up end-of-life plans for over-75s, as well as younger patients suffering from cancer, dementia, heart disease or serious lung conditions.
They are also being told to ask whether the patient wants doctors to try to resuscitate them if their health suddenly deteriorates.
The NHS says the guidance will improve patients’ end-of-life care, but medical professionals say it is ‘blatantly wrong’ and will frighten the elderly into thinking they are being ‘written off’.
In some surgeries, nurses are cold-calling patients over 75 or with long-term conditions and asking them over the phone if they have ‘thought about resuscitation’.
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Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2015/04/over-75-sign-here-if-youre-ready-for-death-gps-to-ask-all-older-patients-if-theyll-agree-to-a-do-not-resuscitate-order/
