This post was originally published on British Institute of Human Rights News .
DNAR decisions: Supporting the campaign by the Stop People Dying Too Young group
4 November 2021
The Stop People Dying Too Young group is made up of self advocates and family carers working in the North East on Leder – the learning from lives and death programme. The group represents the interests of people with a learning disability, autistic people, and families; it is supported by Inclusion North. Find out more about the group here.
We are supporting campaign by the Stop People Dying Too Young to the UK Government about their actions on DNARs. We are doing this working alongside Inclusion North, Learning Disability England, Difference North East, and 80 other groups and individuals.
The campaign is asking the Ministerial Oversight Group on Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation to involve people with lived experience in their work. The Ministerial Oversight Group was set up after the Care Quality Commission wrote a report called ‘Protect, Respect, Connect – decisions about living and dying well during Covid-1…