Mrs E is 89, lives in a local nursing home, and suffers from chronic heart failure. Your GP registrar asked for the cardiac specialist nurse to visit her recently and the nurse informed that her heart ...

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ELDERLY hospital patients have had do not attempt to resuscitate (DNAR) forms "slipped into their discharge notes" which is leaving them living in "fear and anxiety" that they are "being left behind", ...

A hospital trust is being asked to review its resuscitation policy after staff misread a form and failed to give potentially life saving treatment. Retired top economist Nihl Dahlqvist was taken to ...