{"id":6630,"date":"2009-09-03T12:26:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T12:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/09\/sentenced-to-death-on-the-nhs.html"},"modified":"2009-09-03T12:26:15","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T12:26:15","slug":"sentenced-to-death-on-the-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/09\/sentenced-to-death-on-the-nhs.html","title":{"rendered":"“Sentenced to death on the NHS”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the health care system you lefties want us to emulate<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In a letter to The Daily Telegraph<\/a>, a group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death.
\nUnder NHS guidance introduced across England to help doctors and medical staff deal with dying patients, they can then have fluid and drugs withdrawn and many are put on continuous sedation until they pass away.
\n[…]
\n“Forecasting death is an inexact science,”they say. Patients are being diagnosed as being close to death “without regard to the fact that the diagnosis could be wrong.
\n“As a result a national wave of discontent is building up, as family and friends witness the denial of fluids and food to patients.”
\nThe warning comes just a week after a report by the Patients Association estimated that up to one million patients had received poor or cruel care on the NHS. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why do you think we keep talking about rationed care? They’re killing patients prematurely (you really can’t call it anything else), no doubt, to save money. And that’s not the only way they’re trying to save money, they’re cutting staff as well:<\/a><\/p>\n

The NHS may need to cut its workforce by about 10 per cent — the equivalent of 137,000 staff — to help to meet planned savings of \u00a320 billion, according to a leaked Department of Health report.
\n[…]
\nAndrew Lansley, the Shadow Health Secretary, said: “Yet again Labour ministers are failing to be straight with the British people.
\n“Andy Burnham [the Health Secretary] promised to protect the NHS, but now we find out that his department has been drawing up secret plans for swingeing cuts.
\n“Clearly, we need to get better value for money from the NHS, so we applaud any drive for greater efficiency, but it is extraordinary that Labour plan to take an axe to the hospital budget rather than to the bloated health bureaucracy.
\n“Only a fifth of job cuts would be within the bureaucracy, meaning the vast majority to go would be frontline NHS staff. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You know the same exact thing will happen here: runaway bureaucracy while doctors and nurses are cut. No wonder people are upset<\/a>, and have rejected ObamaCare<\/a>, they don’t want this to happen here. Too bad the Dems could care less about listening to their concerns<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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