NHS England has asked GPs and other healthcare professionals to avoid any 'blanket' policies on clinical decisions during the coronavirus (Covid-19) epidemic, especially with regards to do-not-resuscitate forms.
Hundreds of practices in North West London have been advised to tell the relatives of care home patients who lack capacity that 'difficult decisions' will need to be made around admitting these patients to hospital.
A 'fresh, honest and in-depth evaluation' of how the benefits system supports terminally ill patients is to take place, the work and pensions secretary has said.