24 February 2022 This week, Stop People Dying Too Young published an open letter to Maria Caulfield MP, Chairperson of the Ministerial Oversight Group on Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (MOG). The letter was produced in collaboration with Difference North East, Learning Disability England and the British Institute of Human Rights. Who are Stop People Dying Too Young? Stop People Dying Too Young is a group of self-advocates including people with learning disabilities, autistic people and family carers.  Who are the MOG? The MOG is a group set up by the Government, tasked with finding solutions to problems with how some Do Not Resuscitate decisions were made during the Covid pandemic. Some groups of people were particularly affected by this poor practice – people with a learning disability, older people, people with dementia and people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds. However, no-one with lived experience from the g...

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