Horrible—People with learning disabilities have been given do not resuscitate orders in 🇬🇧. Mencap reports many with LD had been told they would not be resuscitated if with #COVID19–which caused 65% of deaths of people with LD recently, vs 39% general pop. theguardian.com/world/2021/feb…
2) “The Care Quality Commission said in December that inappropriate Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR) notices had caused potentially avoidable deaths last year.”
3) “DNACPRs are usually made for people who are too frail to benefit from CPR, but Mencap said some seem to have been issued for people simply because they had a learning disability. The CQC is due to publish a report on the practice within weeks.”
4) “There is growing evidence that even those with a mild disability are more likely to die if they contract the coronavirus.”
5) “Although some people with learning disabilities such as Down’s syndrome were in groups set by Joint Committee on Vaccination & Immunisation (JCVI) that UK govt promised would be offered the vaccine soon, many were classified lower categories of need and are still waiting.
6) Younger people with learning disabilities aged 18 to 34 are 30 times more likely to die of Covid than others the same age, according to Public Health England. gov.uk/government/new…
7) MENCAP CEO, said: “Throughout the pandemic many people with a learning disability have faced shocking discrimination, with inappropriate Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR) notices put on their files and cuts made to their social care support.”
8) “It’s unacceptable that within a group of people hit so hard by the pandemic, and who even before Covid died on average over 20 years younger than the general population, many are left feeling scared and wondering why they have been left out.”
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