Covid-19: Intensive Care Treatment Debate
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Lord Fowler
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Covid-19: Intensive Care Treatment
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Lord Bethell (Con)
My Lords, I share my sympathies with the noble Baroness for the loss of her friend, for which we are all very sad. However, I take exception to her implication of a fiasco in the use of algorithms. I do not accept the implication that it is regular practice for clinicians somehow to give up on patients who stand a chance simply because their reading of an algorithm says that they should move on to someone else. That is not how we run the NHS; it is not how we had to run it during the first wave and it is not how we intend to run it during the second.
The Lord Speaker (Lord Fowler)
My Lords, all supplementary questions have been asked and both Private Notice Questions have finished.