Mary Wilson
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Doctors and nurses fear criminal investigations over decisions made about COVID-19 patients as hospitals risk being overwhelmed.
Saturday 16 January 2021 19:50, UK
A group of health organisations has written to the government urging it to update the law to ensure medical workers do not feel "vulnerable to the risk of prosecution for unlawful killing" when treating COVID-19 patients "in circumstances beyond their control".
... The medics have argued there is no legal protection for COVID-related issues such as when there are "surges in demand for resources that temporarily exceed supply".
The letter is addressed to Health Secretary Matt Hancock and was co-ordinated by the Medical Protection Society (MPS), and signed by the British Medical Association, Doctors' Association UK, the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin and Medical Defence Shield
... The medics' letter says Mr (Boris)Johnson warned in November of a "medical and moral disaster" if the NHS was overwhelmed and "doctors and nurses could be forced to choose which patients to treat, who would live and who would die".
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19...ul-killing-cases-12189848?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter
Saturday 16 January 2021 19:50, UK
A group of health organisations has written to the government urging it to update the law to ensure medical workers do not feel "vulnerable to the risk of prosecution for unlawful killing" when treating COVID-19 patients "in circumstances beyond their control".
... The medics have argued there is no legal protection for COVID-related issues such as when there are "surges in demand for resources that temporarily exceed supply".
The letter is addressed to Health Secretary Matt Hancock and was co-ordinated by the Medical Protection Society (MPS), and signed by the British Medical Association, Doctors' Association UK, the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin and Medical Defence Shield
... The medics' letter says Mr (Boris)Johnson warned in November of a "medical and moral disaster" if the NHS was overwhelmed and "doctors and nurses could be forced to choose which patients to treat, who would live and who would die".
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19...ul-killing-cases-12189848?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter
