Intensive care is a scarce resource demand for which has almost exceeded supply.
But the Gov + NHS have no national guidance on resource allocation/prioritisation.
Should they?
NO, says Swift J, who, this pm refused an oral application for permission to bring a JR.
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3 grounds of challenge argued by Covid affected families:
i) the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 s2(1) + 2A impose a mandatory statutory obligation to have such an ethical decision making tool (NHSE says "rationing policy") under the duty to "maintain plans"
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Oct 9, 2019 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
Jane Campbell’s husband Graham died of AIDS on 19 December 1993 aged 34 after “five years of torture”.
Today, she told the @bloodinquiry about their life, his illness, her thoughts on haemophilia and disability discrimination and women carers.
This is her and Sir Brian:
Graham had severe haemophilia and did everything he shouldn’t to prove he wasn’t disabled. They met at a college for disabled young people aged 16 - “we were so hungry for knowledge and life outside a special school we went a bit mad”.
