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DailyMailUK said:
- 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
Doctors are being told to ask all patients over 75 if they will agree to a 'do not resuscitate' order.GPs to ask elderly if they'll agree to a 'do not resuscitate' order | Daily Mail Online
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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In some parts of England, practice nurses have been instructed to cold-call patients and fill out an advance care plan for them over the phone.
Ruth Nicholls, a palliative care nurse in the South East, told how her brother-in-law, who has a heart condition, was contacted immediately after he had a hospital appointment.
Is this a bit callous and unfeeling by the NHS to require GP's and medical professionals to do something like, cold call a recent older patient and ask them if they have thought about NOT being resuscitated in the future and just... well.... die.... or is this a good thing to get rid of older people and to be the future of medical services in the future to not only inform but for lack of a better word, "sell" DNR and possibly in the future --- suicide to assist the government in curbing medical expenses?
Take the poll and provide an opinion. Remember - if this is the future, you personally will be at the end of a question or decision like this if you live so long and such a policy catches on in your area/country.