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Older relative with end stage heart failure in nursing home
Has Advance care plan
+Community DNACPR
+Anticipatory drugs
+Power of attourney in place
Deteriorated overnight. GP OOH remotely advised care home to ring 999 and in
as ?COVID
Why are we so bad at palliative care?!
Has Advance care plan
+Community DNACPR
+Anticipatory drugs
+Power of attourney in place
Deteriorated overnight. GP OOH remotely advised care home to ring 999 and in
as ?COVIDWhy are we so bad at palliative care?!
This isn’t about tribalism (or GP bashing)
But if we are sending someone who is dying in their preferred place of care in to hospital to die (despite all of the above being in place) then covid is going to overwhelm us
It is no longer acceptable in today’s society to die
But if we are sending someone who is dying in their preferred place of care in to hospital to die (despite all of the above being in place) then covid is going to overwhelm us
It is no longer acceptable in today’s society to die
