Hospital patients face new euthanasia threat
from SPUC:
Vulnerable patients in British hospitals are being put at risk of euthanasia from new end-of-life pathways.
A senior London doctor has brought it to SPUC’s attention that, despite assurances from the government that it would end the notorious ‘Liverpool Care Pathway’ – an end of life programme which sped up the deaths of many patients by removal of food and fluid – such programmes continue to run, but in a new guise.
And these gruesome new death pathways are being practised without public knowledge, very much underneath the radar.
“Three days to live”
Under the new schemes, patients may ‘qualify’ for end-of-life dehydration and starvation should a doctor believe their death is likely to occur within three days – the very same three-day criteria that made the Liverpool Care Pathway such a disaster.
But, as any qualified medical person will tell you, it is nigh on impossible to predict with such a degree of accuracy when a sick person will die – especially for newer doctors.
In reality, a person thought to be dying can sometimes live for weeks, or even months. Some patients may even make a full recovery.
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