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Daughter saves mother, 80, left by doctors to starve
Another NHS horror story.
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Fenton’s daughter, Christine Ball, who had been looking after her mother
before she was admitted to the Conquest hospital in Hastings, East Sussex,
on January 11, says she had to fight hospital staff for weeks before her
mother was taken off the plan and given artificial feeding. -
Ball, 42, from Robertsbridge, East Sussex, said: “My mother was going to be
left to starve and dehydrate to death. It really is a subterfuge for
legalised euthanasia of the elderly on the NHS. ”
Patients forced to live in agony after NHS refuses to pay for painkilling injections
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The Government's drug rationing watchdog says "therapeutic"
injections of steroids, such as cortisone, which are used to reduce
inflammation, should no longer be offered to patients suffering from
persistent lower back pain when the cause is not known.
Instead the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is
ordering doctors to offer patients remedies like acupuncture and osteopathy.
The Myth of Free-Market Health Care in America: Why other Western countries offer no panacea for American woes
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The major difference between America and Europe of course is that America does not guarantee universal health insurance whereas Europe does. But this is not as big a deal as it might seem. Uncle Sam, along with state governments, still picks up nearly half of the country's $2.5 trillion annual health care tab.
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More importantly, contrary to popular mythology, America does offer public care of sorts. It directly covers about a third of all Americans through Medicare (the public program for the elderly) and Medicaid (the public program for the poor). But it also indirectly covers the uninsured by—at least in part—paying for their emergency care. In effect, anyone in America who does not have private insurance is on the government dole in one way or another.
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Brown apologises for unacceptable failings at Stafford 'Third World' hospital
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A damning report form the Healthcare Commission yesterday detailed a catalogue of failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Stafford and Cannock Chase hospitals.
Dehydrated patients were forced to drink out of flower vases, while others were left in soiled linen on filthy wards.
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The commission's report - revealed in yesterday's Daily Mail - said at least 400 deaths could not be explained, although it is feared up to 1,200 patients may have died needlessly.
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