Survey of APM on DoLS

Conclusions Most hospices are using the DoLS legislation only when a patient needs restraint and not when they lose capacity at the end of life – in accordance with the advice from the Department of Health and the Law Society A small number of hospices are being more legalistic. The discussions about the legalisation have…

Janet Tracey: Court of Appeal Judgement

Ethics Committee Summary of Tracey Court of Appeal judgement 2014 – telling patients about DNAR decisions 1. No doctor is obliged to give futile treatments and attempted resuscitation is a treatment. 2. Document everythingon DNACPR form and in medical notes. Did you discuss DNACPR with patient? If not, why too ill, lost capacity, what specific harm you feared causing patient…