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Advance Statement Featured

This Advance Statement allows you to make a record of your wishes, feelings, beliefs and values, which can be used if you later become unwell and need care or medical treatment.

Advance Statement - Portuguese

This is a bilingual version of our Advance Statement. It is in English and Portuguese. It allows you to make a record of your wishes, feelings, beliefs and values, which can be used if you later become unwell and need care or medical treatment.

Advance Statement - Spanish

This is a bilingual version of our Advance Statement. It is in English and Spanish. It allows you to make a record of your wishes, feelings, beliefs and values, which can be used if you later become unwell and need care or medical treatment.

Ambulance trust's policies on recording end-of-life wishes - findings from a freedom of information request (2012)

In late 2011/early 2012 Compassion in Dying contacted all Ambulance Trusts in the UK with a Freedom of Information request, which asked questions on their Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR) policy, end-of-life care registration systems, out-of-hours care and the use of Advance Decisions (formerly known as living wills).

Ambulance trust's policies on recording end-of-life wishes - findings from a freedom of information request (2014)

Prompted by callers to the Information Line – who voiced concerns that paramedics might not have access to their Advance Decision – we contacted all Ambulance Trusts in England and Wales to find out what systems they have in place to record patients’ medical treatment preferences in the event that they lose capacity and whether patient preferences are adhered to.

CPR decisions and DNAR forms

This factsheet explains what cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is, CPR success rates, how to refuse CPR, what a Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR) form is, how to get a DNAR form, and how a DNAR differs from an Advance Decision to Refuse Treatment.

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