🚨🎙 During lockdown the NHS published a scoring index, used to decide which patients would be admitted to hospitals or permitted intensive care treatments based on the following parameters:
🚨 Age
🚨 Fragility score
🚨 Pre-existing comorbidies
Essentially, anyone over age 80 was denied intensive care and end of life pathways were put in plac
The ‘tool’ was discussed by The Times ‘insights’ team on a podcast back in October 2020. Links to the full podcast and also the corresponding news article are as below:
We must never let them away with these atrocities
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NHS COVID-19 Decision Support Tool