Britain "cares" for its elderly

[HillTop]

In Britain, if you are old and infirm (or even young and very sick), you might get to visit the Liverpool Care Pathway -- on which you get sedatives and no life-sustaining care, including no food and fluids. While the son in this case says his parents were treated like dogs -- really they were not. Pets are euthanized -- but Britain subjects the people it puts on the Pathway to a tortuous death by dehydration. As I understand it, the decision to put someone on the Pathway can be made by the attending physician.

I have been collecting Daily Mail articles about the Pathway for a few months. There have been reports of families taking people out of the medical care facility that wanted use the Pathway, and the patient recovered.

Is this what we have to (not) look forward to under the latest version of our medical care system?

'They were treated like dogs waiting to be put down': Son of couple put on 'death pathway' blasts care home's decision to withdraw treatment

A war veteran and his wife died within days of each other after being put on the Liverpool Care Pathway without consent.

Charles Futcher, 90, who fought in the battle of El Alamein, died alone in a care home after he was put on the controversial end-of-life process.

Ten days later his wife Hilda, 89, died in the same home after she too was given sedatives and had vital food and fluids withdrawn under pathway procedures.


Their son, Charlie, said his parents had been treated ‘like animals who needed to be put down’ by doctors who ‘seemed to take it upon themselves to get rid of them’.

The 62-year-old, who was at his mother’s side when she died, said the couple’s treatment had been grotesque and claimed they were put on the pathway without consultation.

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The Liverpool Care Pathway is designed to ease the suffering of terminally ill patients in their final hours and can involve the withdrawal of foods and fluids as well as the use of sedatives such as morphine.

Yesterday the Mail revealed that up to 60,000 patients die on the pathway each year without giving their consent.

Yet Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has described the pathway as ‘a fantastic step forward’ – and dismissed concerns as based on matters ‘going wrong in one or two cases’.


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[Sonofa]

In Britain, if you are old and infirm (or even young and very sick), you might get to visit the Liverpool Care Pathway -- on which you get sedatives and no life-sustaining care, including no food and fluids. While the son in this case says his parents were treated like dogs -- really they were not. Pets are euthanized -- but Britain subjects the people it puts on the Pathway to a tortuous death by dehydration. As I understand it, the decision to put someone on the Pathway can be made by the attending physician.

I have been collecting Daily Mail articles about the Pathway for a few months. There have been reports of families taking people out of the medical care facility that wanted use the Pathway, and the patient recovered.

Is this what we have to (not) look forward to under the latest version of our medical care system?

'They were treated like dogs waiting to be put down': Son of couple put on 'death pathway' blasts care home's decision to withdraw treatment

A war veteran and his wife died within days of each other after being put on the Liverpool Care Pathway without consent.

Charles Futcher, 90, who fought in the battle of El Alamein, died alone in a care home after he was put on the controversial end-of-life process.

Ten days later his wife Hilda, 89, died in the same home after she too was given sedatives and had vital food and fluids withdrawn under pathway procedures.


Their son, Charlie, said his parents had been treated ‘like animals who needed to be put down’ by doctors who ‘seemed to take it upon themselves to get rid of them’.

The 62-year-old, who was at his mother’s side when she died, said the couple’s treatment had been grotesque and claimed they were put on the pathway without consultation.

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The Liverpool Care Pathway is designed to ease the suffering of terminally ill patients in their final hours and can involve the withdrawal of foods and fluids as well as the use of sedatives such as morphine.

Yesterday the Mail revealed that up to 60,000 patients die on the pathway each year without giving their consent.

Yet Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has described the pathway as ‘a fantastic step forward’ – and dismissed concerns as based on matters ‘going wrong in one or two cases’.


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Yeah, well I would see if the SOB wants to withold my groceries and water, when I shoved my .45 up his @sse...

[Lenno]

But you see, as with that phoney "Julia" propaganda cartoon, Your put on the death pathway on the day that you are born and never allowed off it. The only change that will ever be made is that the date of your experation may be moved forward, as the Progressive system runs out of resources due to a societal break down which always occures when the population realizes that they are mere slaves for the ruleing elite

[HillTop]

And yet another NHS cut in healthcare

Doctors offered £7,500 'bribe' to stop sending their patients with pneumonia or heart problems to hospital

GPs are to be offered ‘bribes’ of around £7,500 to slash the number of patients they send to accident and emergency.

Under a controversial bonus scheme that will hit the elderly particularly hard, they will be urged not to refer those with pneumonia, severe influenza or heart problems to hospital.

Patients and senior GPs have labelled the scheme a ‘perverse incentive’ and an ‘unethical waste of taxpayers’ money’.
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The scheme will be brought in across England this year by the NHS Commissioning Board, which has been created to oversee GP services. As part of Government health reforms, family doctors are in the process of setting up local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to replace primary care trusts.
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From April, GPs will be monitored for the numbers of patients they refer with pneumonia, severe flu, urinary infections and heart failure – which largely affect older people.


The NHS claims that many such admissions are avoidable because patients could be looked after at home, or better cared for early on so they don’t become so unwell in the first place.

GPs will be paid the money if they reduce these admissions or ensure they don’t increase.

They can then decide whether to plough it back into patient care or pay themselves and their staff a bonus.



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