Up to 60,000 patients die on the Liverpool Care Pathway each year without giving their consent, shocking figures revealed yesterday.
A third of families are also kept in the dark when doctors withdraw lifesaving treatment from loved ones. ...
The pathway involves withdrawal of lifesaving treatment, with the sick sedated and usually denied nutrition and fluids. Death typically takes place within 29 hours.
The 60,000 figure comes from a joint study by the Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute in Liverpool and the Royal College of Physicians.
The British government's "Health" Secretary thinks this program is "fantastic."
The Orwellian name of the program designed to kill off the expensively ill is sickening. Perhaps we could see the manual of practice, To Serve Patients. I wonder, do the British even need a death panel to get this kind of body count or does everyone working in the system just kind of know that they need to save money?
Perhaps the Brits should just be grateful that the old and sick aren't turned into crackers.
