A Care Quality Commission report on Medway Maritime Hospital’s accident and emergency department has uncovered shocking ...

England’s health ombudsman has made a renewed call for doctors to communicate “do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation” (DNACPR) decisions better to patients and families, following a case where ...

Objectives Our objective was to analyse the policies of hospitals and care homes in England as regards the use of do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNACPR) recommendations. We sought to ...

Data collected included demographics, frailty scores, time of arrival, time of death, time of EOL decision, cause of death in the ED and who wrote do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNACPR) ...

But he had previously requested that a "Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation" (DNACPR) was put in place. The nurse had already begun to carry out medical intervention, but stopped after ...