Tuesday 6 December 2011

Liverpool Care Pathway - More Voices From The Wilderness

A groundswell of  opposition


The Department of Health committed to investing 286 million pounds over the two years to 2011 to support implementation of this End of Life Care Strategy. That is 286 million pounds spent to assist people on their path to the next world while denying them the necessary funding to remain alive and well in this. That is because it is the cheaper option.


Doctors in our local surgeries, hospitals and health care centres are providing us with treatments based on our illness, our age, our families. A Daily Mail article explains how doctors tend to late-diagnose older patients or provide them with less beneficial treatments. The elderly are routinely denied surgery or drugs.


Here are further comments left by petitioners to register their opposition to the Liverpool Care Pathway -

Signature comment by Trevor John

Date: December 1, 2011
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I am 63, with COPD and an herniated disk. I have just about accepted that the NHS is delaying treatment for me, probably in the hope I either die or reach 65 when they can say I am too old for my treatment to be "worth it". But I do object to the fact I could be taken to hospital, then legally starved and killed in this way. If I wanted to die then just "leave me the tablets" and allow me to take them when I am ready. So I can dewcide and not by someone who thinks I am "just past it".


Signature comment by James R Hamilton

Date: December 1, 2011
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There are people who are judicially executed in the United States by lethal injection, whatever one may think of that, it is a fact, their death is by far more pleasant than this barbaric practice in NHS hospitals called 'the pathway'.


Signature comment by CHRISTINE GRIFFITHS

Date: November 25, 2011
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LCP is recommended for use in the last 72 hours of life. That is a recommendation based upon prognosis. BUT, as we all know that doctors are poor at prognosis. A decision that someone is dying in the next 72 hours may well not be reliable.


Signature comment by Anonymous

Date: November 19, 2011
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i, have seen two people die of starvation and dehydration, and both were in trauma, like hanging, one mistake is too many, iv seen two. god help us.


Signature comment by john meehan

Date: October 24, 2011
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my, wifes mother suffered the in the same way 20 yrs ago, starvation. and now my wife has just been treated the same barbaric way but with a name to it, the liverpool care pathway. my wife was eating and drinking, when she went in. and speaking. she was then sedated. and it commotised her . she didnt stand a chance with the x in the box criteria. im suing the n h s .it should be abolished . as with hanging. my wifes funeral is this friday. i am gutted, and annoyed. everone speak up and be heard


Signature comment by Louise Cook

Date: August 19, 2011
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Stop nazifying the NHS - this doesn't happen with private medicine. Just had my father removed from Pathways after nurse tried to avoid informing us that the Liverpool Death Path Way was being instigated. My father has sepsis not terminal cancer


Signature comment by Ivan russell

Date: December 1, 2011
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My family contribute many hours of medical knowledge to the NHS in teaching staff and patients how to see, self treat and to the management to save money in administration to save lives not for some idiot to misdiagnose and terminate life.

23:40, Dec 02, Dr. Patrick Pullicino, United Kingdom
It is not scientifically possible to diagnose impending death as the LCP purports to do. The LCP is instead an assessment of the perceived quality of life of the patient by the medical team and as such is euthanasia.


18:15, Dec 02, Mr. John Trask, United Kingdom
Particularly when the patient is a wife, a mother, a business partner and only 49years old!


15:04, Nov 25, Ms. Christine Griffiths, United Kingdom
Can we trust that the LCP is only being used to ease the process of dying and not to hasten death itself.There is always talk of 'evidence based medicine.' I insist on the right to 'evidence based trust.'


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