Doctor Claims NHS Killing Off 130,000 People A Year
(DailyMail.UK) NHS doctors are prematurely ending the lives of thousands of
elderly hospital patients because they are difficult to manage or to free up
beds, a senior consultant claimed yesterday.
Professor Patrick Pullicino said doctors had turned the use of a controversial ‘death pathway’ into the equivalent of euthanasia of the elderly. |
He claimed there was often a lack of clear evidence for initiating the Liverpool
Care Pathway, a method of looking after terminally ill patients that is used in
hospitals across the country. It is designed to come into force when doctors believe it is impossible for a patient to recover and death is imminent. |
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