The family of a woman hit with a “do not resuscitate” order by doctors say the case is now being probed by medical watchdogs.
Pensioner Letitia Roberts was not consulted about the decision to mark DNACPR – do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation – on her hospital notes and neither was her shocked family.
The 80-year-old’s daughter Lesley, a former nurse herself, only discovered what had happened when she unloaded her mum’s soiled clothing on her discharge from Inverclyde Royal Hospital to her Greenock home.
In among the pile was the DNACPR document – signed by a doctor and a nurse. Now the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) – the nurses’ governing body – is reviewing the case, which happened in the Covid pandemic.The Record raised the incident at the time with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon during her daily Covid briefings as there had been a clutch of similar cases.
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