One elderly patient had to wait 90 minutes for a call back from NHS 111.

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And what may be obvious to a health professional may not be to an elderly patient.

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They gave the example of an elderly patient with severe dementia who had CPR performed on them for 10 minutes until a senior doctor stopped the team.

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"Improvements made in the elderly patient care facilities will ensure safe, sustainable and quality care on a continuous basis and will enhance the patient experience, " she added.

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"There might always be the occasion where we've got a child not breathing or someone in cardiac arrest or an elderly patient with chest pain that needs that response, " Mr Brown added.

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There may be anecdotal cases of families insisting on heroic measures to keep an elderly patient alive. (There may be counter anecdotes of wanting to get Grandma out of the way before her money is all spent).

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In an interview last year with City and State, Mr. Katz said he agreed to dispose of a dead German Shepherd as a favor to an elderly patient and dumped the body after the clinic that was supposed to receive it was locked.

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Ms White refused to help undress one elderly woman patient, it was alleged.

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During the hearing, the panel heard that Dr Kerr supplied sodium amytal to the elderly woman, known as Patient A, in 1998.

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But Professor Peter Weissberg, medical director at the British Heart Foundation, said prescription of statins in the elderly should be driven by clinical judgement and patient consent rather than by targets.

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