Healthcare bosses rebut claims that patients thought unlikely to survive were ‘written off’
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NHS bosses have denied claims that thousands of frail, elderly people were denied potentially life-saving care at the peak of the pandemic in order to stop the health service being overrun.
NHS England took the unusual step on Sunday of issuing a 12-page rebuttal to allegations in the Sunday Times that patients deemed unlikely to survive were “written off” by being refused intensive care.
