Sandra Ford, a GP and member of Care Home Relatives Scotland, told the Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry on Thursday that care home residents are often issued with a DNA (do not attempt) CPR notice, a common practice as frail people are highly unlikely to survive it.
"Because of Covid, and the neglect of family involvement, very often DNA CPR conversations were not taking place with the family and they were shocked to find out they had been put in place."
Eventually the visits were brought to a stop, which she believes worsened her father's condition. She said: 'With family around him his whole life, and then all of a sudden it was absent, he must have felt terribly abandoned and I'm sure that must have caused things to deteriorate for him hugely.'
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