UK Coroners Court Hears Yet Another Unilateral DNAR Case

I have blogged over a dozen British inquiries into unilateral DNAR orders over the past year.  Yesterday, a coroners court heard yet another.



Lawyers for Audrey Hannah Peace questioned Dr. Anthony Macklon, a consultant physician at the University Hospital of North Durham over his failure to tell Mrs. Peace's family that doctors had decided not to resuscitate her if her heart stopped beating.  Dr. Macklon said that Mrs. Peace had stopped responding to treatment and that the family were informed of end of life path way.  But he admitted failing to inform her daughters of an earlier decision not to resuscitate their mother was an 'omission'.