Website Builder

Access to Water, Food and Better Nursing Care for England's Hospital Patients and Yet Save Money as well for cash-strapped NHS

Do Not Resuscitate Orders in England's Hospitals

You may not be aware but in England the law gives doctors and consultants the right in law to put Do Not Resuscitate Orders
on a patient's medical records without asking any consent from you, the patient and from you, the patient's family.
This is what was done to me at Stafford Hospital by Dr W John Hawkins and Dr Suman Chaudhry in the Critical Care Unit in August 2011. Also agreed to by Dr Khan, the surgeon.

Euthanasia-without-consent-pulls your plug on you

You cannot demand CPR or life saving medication.
Do not resuscitate is written on your notes as:
DNR, DNAR, DNA CPR,
DNR DNE, or DNI.

Sunday Telegraph Oct 16, 2011. Elderly patients condemned to early death by secret use of do not resuscitate orders
Elderly patients are being condemned to an early death by hospitals making secret use of "do not resuscitate" orders, an investigation has found. ... A charity for the elderly said the disclosures were evidence of "euthanasia by the backdoor," with potentially lethal notices being placed on the files of patients simply because they were old and frail. ... Action on Elder Abuse, an independent charity, carried out its own analysis of the official watchdog's inspection reports. The charity's findings, ... uncover widespread evidence that patients are being left to die, without families knowing that such decisions have been taken.
READ MORE

NOT GIVEN WATER OR FLUIDS ON A DRIP ONCE DNR PLACED ON YOU
Link - Doctors cannot preduct death so imprecise who is terminal - READ MORE

Sunday Telegraph Oct 16 2011
My father died because of lack of care

A doctor has spoken of how his previously healthy father died in hospital - partly, he says, because of the lack of care he received at the hands of NHS staff.
...Severely dehydrated from lack of fluids, Mr Rodin, at this stage still lucid and conscious, was gasping for water. Adam and Bridget gave him a drink through a straw.
A nurse loudly told them off, clearly within Mr Rodin’s earshot, saying:
“We don’t give fluids to a patient who is not for resuscitation.”
READ MORE

Home

Compassionate alternative - Kill the Pain,
Not the Patient

WE HAVE NO RIGHT TO LIFE IN LAW - see Daily Mail article dated 6 September 2011
  Throughout England and Wales, bereaved relatives have discovered that the decision not to resuscitate had been taken without either the patient or their family being consulted.
Indeed, it is doctors who have the final say about whether resuscitation is in the patient’s best interest.
... As hospitals face deeper budget cuts, some even fear that not resuscitating patients will become a cost-cutting option to help cash-strapped hospitals save money and prevent ‘bed blocking’.
  It is thought that a staggering 80 per cent of those who die in hospital are the subject of
‘do not resuscitate’ orders'.
... Roger Goss, the co-director of Patient Concern, is deeply worried that
 ‘do not attempt resuscitation’ orders are being misused.
‘We are concerned that patients are having “do not resuscitate” written on their notes without they or their relatives knowing,’ he said.
‘Bearing in mind NHS budget cuts over the next few years, it is not far-fetched to foresee that “do not resuscitate” orders will proliferate to the point where everyone over a certain age — perhaps 65 or 70 — gets one stuck on them.’ Read more: click here

The British Medical Association allow doctors to withdraw food and fluid / water from
non-dying hospital patients.
EARLY DAY MOTION

The British Medical Association's guidelines on "Withholding or Withdrawing Life-prolonging Medical Treatment (1999)...the guidelines state "The BMA ... does not hold to the view that there is an absolute value in being alive..." Clearly the BMA feels that some lives, those of the most vulnerable of people, have not only no value, but a negative value.
READ MORE

Dr. Jacqueline Laing - Institutionalising Homicide, Vested Interests and Freedom of Conscience
4.8 Conclusion. By allowing .. food and fluids be withdrawn, ... be performed on non-consenting patients, novel legislation ... a threat to human rights. These laws although touted as progressive, more often than not invite routine abuse and destruction of the vulnerable, obscure accountability and create an inconsistent body of law, with conflicting obligations for health professionals.