Palliative Care New Technique

This email has been sent to Palliative Care Institutes, Palliative Care Associations, Palliative Care Consultants, End of Life Care Training Centres and End of Life Care Hospices throughout the UK and Worldwide.
It has also been sent to the eminent Professor's, Doctor's, NHS Chiefs and Government spokespeople who all of a sudden are looking 'concerned' about Palliative/End of Life Care, since the publication of the Patients Association Report!

Read here: Mike Richards, Government Cancer Tsar says NHS staff who care for the Dying NEED Training 17/10/09

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A new technique in Palliative Care was carried out at Sheffield's Northern General Hospital's Palliative Care Ward.

On a patients penultimate day 10/1/06 and with a syringe driver that had been in situ for 32 hours holding just 10mgs. morphine, one team of Palliative Care Nurses REFUSED top up, breakthrough, extra, prn morphine.
Previously, 40mgs of extra prn morphine had been required whilst the syringe driver in situ was holding just 10mgs. morphine.
After this careless team had gone home the patient was noted to have then 'needed a lot of prn, extra morphine'.

This Palliative Care Less team wrote in the medical notes that patient was 'being given mouthcare - dandelion and burdock' and in their opinion this was 'enough to settle him and he didn't need any prn, extra morphine'.

So there you have it FIZZY DRINKS are now being used instead of terminal sedation. (We have not had a sensible explanation yet for the 'gap' in provision of the NEEDED prn, extra morphine. To witness someone agitated, in anguish, frightened and in pain was terrible).

Dr. Throssell , Deputy Medical Director of the Sheffield Teaching Hospital's Trust, commented in the Telegraph regarding the day before the patient died (10/1/06) 'Mr. Milner indicated he did not have a pain and so no further medication was needed'.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/heal-our-hospitals/5741374/Dying-man-denied-morphine-family-claim.html

In the medical notes 9/1/06 18.00p.m. it said 'Tom too ill to have discussion with staff'.
In the medical notes 10/1/06 11.30a.m. Palliative Care Consultant wrote 'probably unaware of his surroundings'.

Strange how he could indicate he did not have a pain!

ANOTHER NEW Palliative Care technique is in force at Sheffield's Northern General Hospital - LET PATIENT'S FAMILY CALL THEIR G.P. WHEN A PATIENT NEEDS MEDICATION'.

Patient, as noted in medical notes, was 'pulling at sheets' 9.00a.m. 11/1/06 - but the Palliative Care nurses would NOT give him anything. (The syringe driver was still holding ONLY10mgs. of Morphine and had been in situ for 55 hours!)

Call from G.P. (as noted in the medical notes) got a Junior Doctor to make an appearance. This Doctor DOUBLED the amount in the syringe driver and the patient died 1 hour later.

SO it's easy isn't it? FIZZY DRINKS NOT MORPHINE, LET ABSENT G.P.'S initiate MEDICATION to be given, DOUBLE MORPHINE DOSES. Oh and if the family complain JUST MAKE THINGS UP!

Simples!

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See Dr. Throssell, Deputy Medical Director of the Sheffield Teaching Hospital Trust's comments in the Telegraph