What is palliative care?

From: LIVERPOOL CARE PATHWAY - A NATIONAL SCANDAL

To a challenger that this was euthanasia, Baroness Finlay, an invited key speaker at the jubilee event, might have replied:

No, euthanasia is about intent. Palliative care intends to improvve the care when people are inevitably dying.

And Dr. Barton could tell her patient was dying...

This is from The Big Questions-

Jackie Leotardi - 
Yes. One hospital was paid £308,000 for reaching targets for putting people on what is basically a euthanasia programme. Baroness, it is euthanasia.

Baroness Finlay -
It… No, euthanasia is about intent. The Liverpool Care Pathway doesn’t intend to kill people. It intends to improve the care when people are inevitably dying. That’s quite different.

The lines are become so blurred they are imperceptible to see.
 

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