The family of a woman hit with a “do not resuscitate” order by doctors say the case is now being probed by medical watchdogs.
Pensioner Letitia Roberts was not consulted about the decision to mark DNACPR – do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation – on her hospital notes and neither was her shocked family.
The 80-year-old’s daughter Lesley, a former nurse herself, only discovered what had happened when she unloaded her mum’s soiled clothing on her discharge from Inverclyde Royal Hospital to her Greenock home.
