‘Do not resuscitate’ orders caused potentially avoidable deaths, regulator finds

Care Quality Commission says orders were wrongly applied in English care homes in early part of pandemicCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDo-not-resuscitate orders were wrongly allocated to some care home residents during the Covid-19 pandemic, causing potentially avoidable deaths, the first phase of a review by England’s Care Quality Commission has found.The regulator warned that some of the “inappropriate” do not attempt cardiopulmonary resusci