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Baby RB faces 'miserable sad and pitiful existence' - Daily Telegraph 2nd November 2009
"A desperately ill baby who has been in intensive care since birth should be allowed to die in peace or he will end up living a “miserable, sad and pitiful existence”, a court heard. "
Parents clash in court over taking child off life support - The Guardian 2nd November 2009
"A mother supporting a legal attempt to take her severely disabled baby boy off the ventilator that keeps him alive said today her son's "intolerable suffering" had to outweigh her grief at his death.
The boy, known as RB for legal reasons, was born last year with a rare condition that severely limits the ability to breathe and move limbs."
Mother: why my baby should be allowed to die - The Times 2nd November 2009
"A mother at the centre of a legal wrangle over a gravely ill baby today told why she felt her son should be allowed to die.
Anthony Fairweather, a solicitor acting for the boy's mother, said: "RB’s mother has sat by her son’s bedside every day since he was born. Every day she has seen the pain he experiences just to survive. "
Baby RB: Tug of love as baby's mother says his life support can be turned off but father goes to court to stop it - Daily Mail 3rd October 2009
"A heartbroken mother took centre stage on Monday as the High Court was asked to let her seriously disabled son die.
She is backing a hospital's application for the year-old baby to be taken off life support.
The baby's father, however, insists he must live and says a simple operation could even lead to him being cared for at home. "
My cancer heartbreak: How do you tell your children mummy might die? - Daily Mail 3rd October 2009
"Can there be a conversation more difficult for a mother than the one where you have to tell your children you have cancer?
The one where you have to prepare them for the fact that you have an illness that might kill you. An illness that, at the very least, will rob you of your hair and your strength, and take you away from them for long periods, while you fight for your survival in hospital."
More tests for right-to-life baby - BBC Health News 2nd November 2009
"A fresh medical assessment is to be carried out on a baby boy at the centre of a "right-to-life" legal dispute, a High Court judge heard on Monday.
The one-year-old, known as Baby RB for legal reasons, was born with a rare, genetic muscle condition that makes it hard for him to breathe independently."
Doctors admit to practising 'slow euthanasia' on terminally-ill patients - Daily Mail 29th October 2009
"One in five doctors admit to keeping the terminally-ill heavily sedated until they die, in what critics have dubbed 'slow euthanasia'.
A poll of nearly 3,000 doctors found that 18.7 per cent had administered drugs to keep patients suffering from painful conditions such as cancer unconscious for hours at a time."
TAMASIN DAY-LEWIS: Daniel and I are sure Mama believed she was spending her final days in a five-star hotel, not a hospital - Daily Mail 25th October 2009
"My mother went to heaven a month early. Being an actress, she was always a stickler for time: her fear of losing a job or arriving late for a performance or audition (unthinkable) ran deep. Arriving early was something she instilled in my brother and me almost from birth. We both arrived on time for that, too.
She didn't go to heaven before she had been through hell. An unnecessary hell that nobody should have to either go through or experience with a member of their family."
Third of doctors act to shorten lives of dying - The Guardian 23rd October 2009
"Around a third of doctors say they have given drugs to terminally ill patients or withdrawn treatment, knowing or intending that it would shorten their life, research reveals.
A study of doctors in charge of the last hours of almost 3,000 people finds decisions almost always have to be made on whether to give drugs to relieve pain that could shorten life and whether to continue resuscitation and artificial feeding."
Palliative and End of Life Care - The Bolton Scenario - The Bolton News 21st October 2009
"NHS Bolton hosts the local End of Life Care (EoLC) Strategy but the ability to deliver care which meets the needs of individuals and their families and carers is very dependent on partnership working across the NHS, social services, the hospice and the voluntary sector."
More training needed following concerns about death pathway: cancer tsar - Daily Telegraph 17th October 2009
"Doctors and nurses need more training in how to care for people who are dying, Mike Richards, the Government's cancer tsar, has said, following concerns over the controversial 'death pathway' scheme."
Patients should not be resuscitated 'unless they have specifically agreed' - Daily Telegraph 17th October 2009
"Patients should not be resuscitated unless they have specifically agreed to the procedure, which can be traumatic and has “appalling” success rates, a doctor has urged. "
Shadowmancer author Graham Taylor stops writing to care for sick daughter - Daily Telegraph 15th October 2009
"Graham Taylor, one of Britain's best-selling international authors, is ending his career prematurely to look after his daughter, who has developed an incurable disease. "
Controversial 'death' pathway - Daily Telegraph 13th October 2009
"Concerns about the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway were first raised in The Daily Telegraph last month, when experts warned that some patients were being denied drugs and fluids after it had been wrongly decided that they were dying. "
Crosby's Jospice calls for NHS to pay more towards patients’ care - Liverpool Echo 12 October 2009
"A MERSEYSIDE hospice is appealing for health bodies to pay more towards patients’ care to compensate for a drop in charity donations.
Jospice, in Crosby, is finding it harder to raise funds during the recession."
End-of-life care is the focus of Bolton Town Hall - The Bolton News 12th October 2009
"Specialists from all over the North say it is vital people in Bolton plan their end-of-life care and funeral wishes.
A conference on care for terminally ill people held in the Lancaster Suite at Bolton Town Hall, hosted by town’s Over-50s Federation, spoke of the importance of raising public awareness to improve end-of-life care. "
Father misdiagnosed with cancer dies after 'medics put him on death pathway and stopped feeding him' - Daily Mail 12th October 2009
"A grandfather who beat cancer was wrongly told the disease had returned and left to die at a hospice which pioneered a controversial 'death pathway'.
Doctors said there was nothing more they could do for 76-year-old Jack Jones, and his family claim he was denied food, water and medication except painkillers. He died within two weeks."
Terminally ill grandmother 'left to starve' by doctors - The Sunday Telegraph 11th October 2009
"Hazel Fenton, an 80-year-old grandmother who was placed under a controversial care plan and left to “starve to death” after doctors identified her as being terminally ill, only recovered after the intervention of her daughter. "
Daughter saves mother, 80, left by doctors to starve - The Sunday Times 11th October 2009
"AN 80-year-old grandmother who doctors identified as terminally ill and left to starve to death has recovered after her outraged daughter intervened.
Hazel Fenton, from East Sussex, is alive nine months after medics ruled she had only days to live, withdrew her antibiotics and denied her artificial feeding. The former school matron had been placed on a controversial care plan intended to ease the last days of dying patients. "
Carlisle's soul midwife - Carlisle News & Star 8th October 2009
"Black clouds have filled the late afternoon sky in Carlisle and inside a quiet café near the cathedral Benet Waterman is discussing one subject at length: death. "
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