Free Republic

Death panels on the march!  The Telegraph is reporting that UK hospitals are paid to put patients on the Liverpool Death Care Pathway. (The Pathway is supposed to sedate patients whose pain cannot otherwise be controlled. But serious charges have been made that it is actually sometimes used when not needed medically, in other words, as backdoor euthanasia, including of the non terminally ill.) From the story: Almost two thirds of NHS trusts using the Liverpool Care Pathway have received payouts totalling millions of pounds for hitting targets related to its use, research for The Daily Telegraph shows. The majority of NHS hospitals in...

A former police officer is taking his legal battle over a health trust's refusal to fund obesity surgery to the Court of Appeal. Thomas Condliff, who weighs 22 stone, says he needs the stomach operation to save his life. In what is believed to be the first case of its kind, he is appealing today against a High Court judge's refusal of his application. Mr Condliff and his lawyers argue the 'irrational' decision violated his rights under the Human Rights Act and also breached the trust's own funding policy. The grandfather from Talke, Staffordshire, became obese because of the drugs...