Health professionals (including representatives of doctors, nurses and paramedics) together with representatives of patients and members of the public have been working together closely over the last 12 months to develop a new system to record choices about treatments that people would want to be offered if they become severely or critically ill and treatments that they would not want or that would not help them.
A Working Group was formed, comprising representatives from patient advisory groups, Royal Colleges and other professional bodies, regulators, doctors and nurses, supported by the Resuscitation Council (UK) and Royal College of Nursing.
Drafts of a patient and family information sheet, prototype decision form and clinical guidance documents will be made available during January 2016 for a consultation and usability testing period of 6 weeks.
Read more about the Terms of reference and the Working Group here.
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