From LCP Wikipedia article: "LCP was widely abused as a 'tick box exercise', with patients being casually assessed as terminal, heavily sedated, and denied water so the diagnosis became self-fulfilling."
And check this out:
130,000 elderly patients killed...(2012 link) - An eminent British doctor told a meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine in London that every year 130,000 elderly patients that die while under the care of the National Health Service (NHS) have been effectively euthanized by being put on the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), a protocol for care of the terminally ill that he described as a “death pathway.” Dr. Patrick Pullicino, a consultant neurologist for East Kent Hospitals and Professor of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Kent, claimed that doctors are putting people on the LCP without proper analysis of their condition, citing “pressure on beds and difficulty with nursing confused or difficult-to-manage elderly patients” as factors.According to the Daily Mail, the doctor sounded the alarm that of the approximately half million deaths in Britain each year of elderly people who are in hospital or under NHS care, about 29 percent, or 130,000, are patients who were on the LCP.
The Liverpool Care Pathway, developed by the Royal Liverpool Hospital and the Marie Curie hospice in the 1990s, and described by its formulators as a “template” to guide the care of the dying, was approved in 2004 by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), the government’s health scrutiny body in charge of rationing health services. The LCP, reportedly adopted nationwide by more than 300 hospitals, 130 hospices and 560 care homes in England, allows for withdrawal of water and nourishment, and “continuous deep sedation” for patients judged to be incurable. Combined with withdrawal of fluids, deep sedation leads quickly to death. Pullicino related the personal experience of removing a man from the LCP who went on to live another 14 months, proving that the claim of the diagnosing doctor that the man had only hours to live was “palpably false..."
I got 2 friends, one who has a parent in the British health care service, the other the German system. They loved their old countries system until they now have a parent on the chopping block.
They picked a cheap system “efficient” system. The productive they cover, the younger voters they cover.
The elderly who can’t produce and we can’t to depend on their votes....Goodnight.
They’re shocked. I’m not.
The most disturbing Star Trek Voyager episode I ever watched was with Janeway and Winchester from MASH. He came from a planet that believed when you reached a certain age you are no longer productive enough to exist.
It was sick the first time I watched it. It was even sicker when I came acrossed about 6 months ago and see it seems it is actually starting to come into fruition.
We abort the young....time to include the old.