Media Report 'Independent inquiry into hospital deaths to begin'
- 1 Jan 2013
- Family
- Document ID: FAM000667
Refers to: Gosport Memorial Hospital, Professor Richard Baker (University of Leicester), the Harold Shipman inquiry and morphine.
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Refers to: Gosport Memorial Hospital, Professor Richard Baker (University of Leicester), the Harold Shipman inquiry and morphine.
Refers to: Gosport War Memorial Hospital, 'Care minister Norman Lamb', Charles Farthing, Bishop James Jones, Dr Jane Barton, Charles Farthing, Caroline Dinenage MP (Gosport), Elsie Devine, Gladys Richards, Elsie Lavender, Robert Wilson, Brian Cunningham and Geoffrey Packman.
Refers to: the Alzheimer's Society, Mrs Arlene Phillips, David Cameron (The Prime Minister), the Care Quality Commission and Cynthia Bower (Chief Executive, Care Quality Commission).
Refers to: the Department of Health, End of Life Care Registers, the Liverpool Care Pathway, Care Minister Norman Lamb,Dr Peter Saunders, 'Professor Patrick Pullicino, has said use of the Pathway is a self-fulfilling prophecy and amounts to assisted death' and Professor Sir Mike Richards (End of Life Care Director, NHS).
Refers to: the General Medical Council, Niall Dickson (Chief Executive of the GMC), Joyce Robbins (Patient Concern), Katherine Murphy (Chief Executive of the Patients Association and the Care Quality Commission.
Refers to: the Liverpool Care Pathway, 'his sisters last night called the Liverpool Care Pathway a 'licence to kill', the Marie Curie Palliative Care Institution and 'one of the Pathway's ten 'key messages' is : 'The LCP neither hastens nor postpones death'.
Refers to: 'One nurse's heart-rending account of how, without telling her, doctors decided to put her mother on a controversial 'pathway to death' - and the long, agonising days that followed', Maureen and Carole Jones, 'Professor Patrick Pullicino, a consultant neurologist for East Kent Hospitals, and Professor of Clinical Neurosciences at Kent University, told a conference the LCP had become an 'assisted death pathway' and 'Very likely, many elderly patients who could live substantially longer are being killed by the LCP, he said'.
Refers to: the 'Daily Mail Campaign Dignity for the Elderly' and it has left her with a fear that old people are too easily written off by hospitals.
Refers to: 'The crucial evidence nobody heard', Gosport War Memorial Hospital, Andrew Bradley (Deputy Assistant Coroner, Portsmouth and South East Hampshire), Charles Farthing, 'the now defunct Daedalus and Dryad Wards', John White ('a barrister'), Professor Gary Ford, Professor David Black, Professor Richard Baker, Dr Andrew Wilcock, Professor Robert Forrest, Dr Jane Barton, syringe drivers, the Crown Prosecution Service, euthanasia, Elsie Lavender, Brian Cunningham, Robert Wilson and other patients.
Refers to: Gosport War Memorial Hospital, Chief Superintendent John James, The Independent Police Complaints Commission, the Crown Prosecution Service, Operation Rochester and Gillian Mackenzie.
Refers to: 'if fluids are withdrawn death is inevitable from dehydration', the British Medical Association, 'Death from dehydration is painful and unacceptable' and annotated with 'Given to Gosport Police & HQ'.
Media report consists of two articles under one title 'Treatment of the terminally ill'. Annotated with 'Given to Gosport & HQ'. Refers to: 'I will expect adequate hydration and effective analgesia', 'Such management is not euthanasia but good humane medical care as we have always known it in this country', the BMA, 'and the committee which I chair is currently drafting advice to guide doctors in this complex area of treatment, where both the law and ethics are unclear' and ' Any treatment given with the primary intention of shortening life is both unethical and illegal'.
Refers to: terminally ill patients and Such hastening is usually effected by withholding or withdrawing treatment or by giving huge dosages of painkillers or sedatives over a day or two.
Annoted with 'Given to Goport & Police HQ.Refers to: the British Medical Association, 'Patients' children have noted that their parents have suffered from dehydration after sedation, and then died from an infection' and 'whatever the case, the BMA should decide whether it is ethically right to help nature to take its course.'.
Refers to: Daily Echo, a Hampshire Detective Sergeant, 'Ask why case not to court following R Burt's Investigation', a Hampshire Detective Constable, Drug sheet, Dr Lord's directive, 'Bead - Oramorph' and Death Certificate.
Refers to: 'Everything comes to those who wait! Thanks for your help, please let me know of any developments. Mike Walker'.
Refers to: Dr Jane Barton, Capt Carl Jewell, Dr Andrew Wilcock, Geoffrey Packman, Helena Service, Ruby Lake, Robert Wilson, Elsie Devine, Sheila Gregory, Leslie Pittock, Elsie Lavender, Arthur Cunningham, Enid Spurgeon, syringe driver and Gosport War Memorial Hospital.
Annotated with 'Telegraph Monday 9/4/01'.Refers to: Crown Prosecution Service, Mike Wilson, Edna Purnell, Jack Williamson, Portsmouth Health-Care NHS Trust, the health service ombudsman, 'diamorphene' and Gosport War Memorial Hospital.
Refers to: Shirley Holman, Gosport War Memorial Hospital, Dr Jane Barton, Sister Gill Hamblin, medicines, Dryad Ward, syringe drivers, the GMC, Timothy Langddale QC, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Commission for Health Improvement.