Written Evidence Dec. 13 2021
Inquiry: Protecting human rights in care settingsFound: HCS0044 - Protecting human rights in care settings Learning Disability England Written Evidence
Written Evidence Dec. 13 2021
Inquiry: Protecting human rights in care settingsFound: Examples include our work to highlight the early issues relating to DNACPR, campaigning for equitable
Written Evidence Nov. 25 2021
Inquiry: The Government's response to covid-19: human rights implications of long lockdownFound: Decisions made to restrict, reduce and prevent visits in some cases for prolonged periods of time.
Mentions:
1: Todd, Maree (SNP - Caithness, Sutherland and Ross) I am under no illusions about the enormous size of this task, but by continuing to work together, learning - Speech Link
2: Gulhane, Sandesh (Con - Glasgow) When I was doing my GP shift yesterday, I had a conversation about DNACPR, whci stands for “do not attempt - Speech Link
3: Todd, Maree (SNP - Caithness, Sutherland and Ross) provision for those people for whom bike ownership is really challenging, perhaps because they have a disability - Speech Link
4: Todd, Maree (SNP - Caithness, Sutherland and Ross) , as well as the people who make decisions about planning infrastructure. - Speech Link
Nov. 03 2021
Source Page: Review of the adult social care COVID-19 winter plan 2020 to 2021Found: The JCVI initial advice put people with a ‚severe or profound learning disability ™ in priority
Inquiry Publications Oct. 12 2021
Inquiry: Coronavirus: lessons learntFound: by the annual Learning Disability Mortality Review (LeDeR) Programme.
Inquiry Publications Oct. 12 2021
Inquiry: Coronavirus: lessons learntFound: by the annual Learning Disability Mortality Review (LeDeR) Programme.
Mentions:
1: Sajid Javid (CON - Bromsgrove) will be interested to know that the Department commissioned the Care Quality Commission to review the DNACPR - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Hunt (CON - South West Surrey) Care Committee published a worrying report about the inhumane treatment given to 2,000 people with learning - Speech Link
3: Sajid Javid (CON - Bromsgrove) He just referred to some of that work, especially in his comments about learning disability and autism - Speech Link
Asked by: Mark Hendrick (Labour (Co-op) - Preston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people diagnosed with learning disorders who died of covid-19 in the last 12 months had do not resuscitate orders.
Answered by Nadine Dorries
The Department is clear that learning disability should never be a reason for a Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR) decision and that blanket DNACPR decisions for whole groups of people are completely inappropriate.
The Department does not hold data centrally on the numbers or basis for DNACPR decisions. In October 2020, the Department asked the Care Quality Commission to review how DNACPR decisions were made during the COVID-19 pandemic, including for people with a learning disability. The report, published on the 18 March, looked at how DNACPR decisions were made in the earlier stages of the pandemic. The 2020/21 General Medical Services contract Quality and Outcomes Framework now includes a requirement for all DNACPR decisions for people with a learning disability to be reviewed. The fifth annual report of the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review programme published on 10 June 2021, reported that in 2020, of the people with a learning disability who were reported as dying from COVID-19, 81% had a DNACPR decision.
Asked by: Mark Hendrick (Labour (Co-op) - Preston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many deaths of people with do not resuscitate orders have been attributed to covid-19 as the cause of death in the last 12 months.
Answered by Nadine Dorries
The Department is clear that learning disability should never be a reason for a Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR) decision and that blanket DNACPR decisions for whole groups of people are completely inappropriate.
The Department does not hold data centrally on the numbers or basis for DNACPR decisions. In October 2020, the Department asked the Care Quality Commission to review how DNACPR decisions were made during the COVID-19 pandemic, including for people with a learning disability. The report, published on the 18 March, looked at how DNACPR decisions were made in the earlier stages of the pandemic. The 2020/21 General Medical Services contract Quality and Outcomes Framework now includes a requirement for all DNACPR decisions for people with a learning disability to be reviewed. The fifth annual report of the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review programme published on 10 June 2021, reported that in 2020, of the people with a learning disability who were reported as dying from COVID-19, 81% had a DNACPR decision.