NHS denies elderly people were refused care during early Covid

Healthcare bosses rebut claims that patients thought unlikely to survive were ‘written off’

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.

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