Posted on 03/28/2020 5:38:21 PM PDT by marshmallow
Francis Davis is Professorial Fellow in the Institute on Ageing Population at the University of Oxford and until recently a non-executive director of an NHS Trust.
It became apparent this week that the National Institute of Clinical Excellence has issued new guidance on how NHS staff should go about choosing who should be refused critical health care in the coming weeks.
Even though these proposals emerge from a bureaucratic backwater, they are a recipe for which the Government and Parliamentarians, as they pass emergency laws, will be held personally responsible. They recommend focusing the refusal of critical clinical care on the most vulnerable members of all our families.
At first sight, NICE’s guidelines are a charter of permission to turn away those with dementia. Given that some dementias come and go as they progress, this might be considered controversial in its own right. On closer observation, though, NICE goes further still to list anyone who is ‘confused’, struggling with communication or needing sustained support falling clearly into the cohort of citizens who must be turned away.
In what are going to be stretched times, this is a license to cut corners and set aside those with lives still to live.Coronavirus will cause heads to ache, throats to get sore and pneumonia to rise.
As a result, many who do well enough under normal circumstances may struggle at home to take medications in coming days. Others may not receive visits upon which they rely, the absence of which will accelerate their frailty for a while.
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They already pressure spouses to starve the AD husband or wife to death.
They have nice euphemistic terms for it.
The Liverpool Pathway.
Yep.
And progressive talk of “love” turns out to just be virtue signaling.
And this is why socialized medicine is bad. Resources are finite, and there’s no option other than to pick and choose.
They wonder why we’d rather pay health insurance premiums and have some control over our care.
“The Liverpool Pathway.”
Yep, such a pleasant term, “Pathway”. Now it totally creeps me out after reading the articles on it several years ago.
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