tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78333488595143411432024-03-12T20:57:03.674-07:00Careless CareAbuse by the care system in South LanarkshireAlice Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05381422778632377553noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7833348859514341143.post-1417066646649480622020-01-15T06:28:00.003-08:002020-01-15T06:28:55.261-08:00Ship them to Thailand<span style="font-size: large;">"The total cost of care for people with dementia in the UK is currently at around £35 billion. This is divided between the NHS, the Government Social Care budget, and unpaid care (provided by families). But with the younger generation having to fork out £8.3 billion of their own money a year, it has led to some outside-the-box thinking when it comes to caring for loved ones."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">"The government and private investors are very active in cultivating this as part of their economic development. With the number of people with dementia set to increase, and the cost of looking after them also getting higher..."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">"One option is to care for family members at home, but British society hasn’t warmed to the idea of living with grandparents like in other countries. Another potential option is sending them abroad for better and cheaper care. It might seem cruel sending a dementia patient almost 15,000 kilometers away… until you dig a little deeper."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">"Dr. Caleb Johnston, senior lecturer in human geography at Newcastle University, told the Guardian that Thailand already has a long history of medical tourism, and it’s now setting itself up as an international hub for dementia care." </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">"`The government and private investors are very active in cultivating this as part of their economic development. With the number of people with dementia set to increase, and the cost of looking after them also getting higher, it is likely to be an option that more and more people consider,` he said."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Eight such care homes are located in the northern part of Thailand in Chiang Mai. Managed by a mixture of Swiss, British, and Thai experts and staff, all have the backing and support of the Thai government. For 25 percent cheaper than private care in the UK, these centers boast one-to-one 24-hour care and are all set in magnificent grounds resembling 4- or 5-star hotels."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"The facts of the case are simple enough. The dead woman had dementia. Before she developed dementia, she told family, friends and medics that it would be her wish to die before the dementia ravaged her mind completely. Unknown to the woman, and without consulting her, her family and medics came to the decision that the dementia had advanced to a stage where her prior wishes should be triggered."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Unbeknownst to her, a sedative was added to the woman`s morning coffee. The intent was to render her senseless, and then to administer a fatal drug. A quiet death, and one she would not even be aware of."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Unfortunately, the sedative did not work correctly. The woman came to her senses and realised that her doctor was trying to kill her. She asked her family to stop the doctor. Her family did not stop the doctor."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Brian Gerrish began by saying: "We would like to remind people that it was David Cameron, a few years ago, who pointed out that millions of people were expected to have dementia in the UK. There was no discussion as to where the dementia had come from but millions of people - I think two million was actually the figure that David Cameron mentioned - and the government needed to deal with it."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Well this is one of the little headlines again we were sent. `<em>David Cameron joins Alzheimer`s Research UK as our President to continue a mission he instigated through the Prime Minister`s Dementia Challenge`</em>. Now that`s a report from January 2017."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Now this was a ... recent headline. `<em>David Cameron`s venture capital fund invests [millions] in search for first dementia drugs`</em>. So more business for the big pharmaceuticals Mike."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mike Robinson asks: "Is that drugs to create dementia?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Well .... they get profit both ways because we know that elderly people are being given sedatives in residential and care homes which produce dementia-like symptoms where, presumably, the drug companies can then give them more drugs for trying to cure the symptoms they created in the first place."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"But it says `<em>The Dementia Discovery Fund is the world`s largest investment fund focused on a single medical research area. Its backers, who have invested £290 million, include Bill Gates, the UK Government and seven top pharmaceutical firms, including GSK and Pfizer`</em>."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"So there you are, rest assured that David Cameron has your best interests at heart and he`ll be thinking of you as you`re lying on your bed in the care home."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"But this was an interesting one, also sent through to us. So it`s Sell2Wales. This is the official website where contract details are notified and we`ve got here ... `<em>computerised cognitive behaviour therapy</em>` - software is what they`re talking about and some small print here. We`ll see what we can do..."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"It says: `<em>The Scottish Government has recognised changes. This has to do with a massive increase in people with depression, stress and anxiety coming forward in Scotland and the number of individuals prescribed antidepressants which has doubled in five years with a demand in specialist face-to-face psychological therapy doubling in the past ten years`</em>."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>"The Scottish Government has recognised these challenges through its 2020 vision which states the need to underpin service redesign with the use of digital health while enabling patients to self-manage their own conditions</em>."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"<em>In 2017/18, full national roll-out of the Computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (cCBT) service across all 14 territorial health boards was achieved offering a national solution to the increasing demand of common mental health problems such as low-mood, depression and anxiety</em>."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Well I think there`s some questions to be asked. But the person who sent this to me said `I find this advert very very creepy `and I certainly agree with them on that. But we know that elderly people are being induced into dementia-like symptoms and we know that many people are suffering depression or anxiety or stress illnesses as a result of the society that the government is creating around them. So Artificial Intelligence is going to sort it out. Maybe."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"`We already have one of the lowest state pensions in Europe and one in five older people in Britain live below the poverty line`." </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">"`Those who have retired have already made huge contributions to our society and are already the largest group of charity and community volunteers,` she said. `The Saga website has been buzzing all day with angry messages of incredulity`." </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Nearly 2,000 were killed in 2017, not including a few territories that did not report figures and assuming all euthanasia deaths were reported. All but one of these deaths resulted from a lethal jab <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">— </span>homicide <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">— </span>at the patients<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’ </span>request. From the `</span><a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/publications/health-system-services/medical-assistance-dying-interim-report-june-2018.html"><u><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Third Interim Report</span></u></a><span style="font-size: large;"> on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada.`<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">"</span></span><br />
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Alice Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05381422778632377553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7833348859514341143.post-35633790911056889102018-06-14T04:41:00.002-07:002018-06-14T04:41:45.718-07:00Plugging the gap in joined up services<span style="font-size: large;">From UK Column News:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Highlighting the article,<em> `Edinburgh Families told to `plug the gap` in care for the elderly` </em><span style="font-size: large;">Mike Robinson says<em>: "</em>Do Edinburgh families have the resources to plug the gap in care for the elderly<em>?"</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Well, on someone`s behalf. It`s not clear whose behalf. ... It`s a part of the system that`s becoming ever more opaque, ever more complex, and just before we leave that... `<em>The vision of this organisation. People and oganisations, working together for a caring, healthier and safer Edinburgh. </em>Now that [is] presumably a grammatical mistake. It should be `more caring`. Because that implies there`s no care in Edinburgh at the moment which you might have applied if you`d been in Glasgow... They introduce `safer`. Does that mean police are going to come into this as well? ..."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">An urgent appeal has been made on behalf of historian and author, Peter Hofschroer, to attend and witness events at the Royal Courts of Justice in London on Wednesday 14 June 2017 in order to see that justice is done. The courtroom and time is still to be confirmed here </span><a href="https://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/court-lists/list-cause-rcj"><span style="font-size: large;">https://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/court-lists/list-cause-rcj#COA-Criminal</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Friends and supporters of the acclaimed author and historian and his mother, Barbara (aka Grandma B), are asked to attend his appeal against extradition to Austria. He has been unlawfully sectioned under mental health legislation in Austria by a single judge who has never met him, and WITHOUT A MEDICAL EXAMINATION. They want to incarcerate him forever in a mental institution and force him to take psychiatric drugs because he has been speaking out publicly about public corruption in York and North Yorkshire (places that he refers to as `Savile Country`)..."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">…"So what is going on here and who is involved? The main abuser is employed by local social services. He, his wife and daughter have provided support services to the local police. They all know who the isolated old people in their area with assets are. It would seem they are systematically targeting defenceless old people and seizing control of their assets before bundling them off into a council home, then selling their assets. The cash then gets laundered through a dodgy private care company as `care fees` and the police officers, social workers, council officials and local politicians involved then pocket the money. The perfect crime, as who is going to listen to a confused, old lady in a home, whose contact with the outside world they are controlling? This is rampant corruption and serious, organised crime. Nobody in authority in North Yorkshire will respond to correspondence and deal with this case..."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust issued with requirement notices by the CQC."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"The Care Quality Commission has issued Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust with two requirement notices after inspectors last year found half of the `do not attempt resuscitation` forms they examined were not completed correctly."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"In 2014, the family took their case against CUH to the Court of Appeal, which ruled it was a breach of her human rights for a doctor to put DNAR form in place without speaking to Ms Tracey first. This set a legal precedent for patients to be consulted about decisions involving CPR."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"It said: `These included lack of mental capacity assessments for those patients deemed to lack capacity, lack of information regarding the discussions held with patients and/or their families and not discussing the DNACPR with the patient, even though it stated they had capacity`."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"The CQC said the trust’s DNAR policy cited the Tracey judgement. `This meant the trust’s DNACPR policy and the Tracey legislation was not being adhered to. The legal process of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 was also not being followed,` the report said."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Ms Tracey’s daughter, Kate Masters, said: `Addenbrooke’s hospital should be acutely aware of the implications of not following their own DNACPR policy, national guidance and legislation, more than any other hospital."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"`It feels like a slight on my mum’s memory. They have never apologised to my dad or the wider family and this CQC finding indicates to me that they appear to be continuing with the stance they held throughout the court case that they did nothing wrong. In my opinion, Addenbrooke’s has learned nothing`."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"She added that the DNAR form currently used by the trust formed the basis of a new national form due to be rolled out nationally. Concerns have been raised that the design of the new form could lead to families being excluded from end of life care decisions."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Advisors to Public Health England (PHE) warned of a `strong and flashing` warning light, and said trends over the last four years suggest the rise in deaths may now be the highest since World War Two." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Professor Danny Dorling, from Oxford University, an advisor to PHE on older age life expectancy, said: `When we look at 2015, we are not just looking at one bad year. We have seen excessive mortality - especially among women - since 2012. </span><span style="font-size: large;">I suspect the largest factor here is cuts to social services - to meals on wheels, to visits to the elderly`..."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You`d think health officials would have mentioned it - they certainly know about it - rather than making excuses</span>.Alice Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05381422778632377553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7833348859514341143.post-34459296464469667502016-11-05T00:39:00.000-07:002016-11-05T00:39:02.374-07:00Deprivation of Liberty Standards are not working<span style="font-size: large;">"Last week, NHS Digital released </span><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/article/811/Latest-statistics-for-the-Deprivation-of-Liberty-Safeguards-published-by-NHS-Digital"><span style="font-size: large;">figures</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> showing that the backlog of referrals under the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS) regime had soared from 75,000 last year, to over 100,000 by April 2016 (101,750, to be exact). These burgeoning figures come two years after the Supreme Court's ruling in </span><a href="https://www.supremecourt.uk/decided-cases/docs/UKSC_2012_0068_Judgment.pdf"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Cheshire West</em> [2014] UKSC 19</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">, which clarified that the threshold for cases requiring DOLS authorisations was lower than had previously been thought - resulting in a ten-fold rise in applications."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"But this is a wholly unsatisfactory response. The current failure to conduct assessments, and the size of the backlog, shows a catastrophic, widespread failure on the part of local authorities to comply with their legal obligations. This is a failure which is seen at local level, but central Government must shoulder the lion's share of the blame. The backlog results, in large part, from swingeing cuts to local authority budgets over the past number of years, and a failure on the part of central Government to respond to the <em>Cheshire West</em> judgment by ensuring local authorities have adequate resources to comply with their obligations to vulnerable individuals deprived of their liberty."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"This is a common theme for local authorities. A decade ago, many local authorities under financial pressure who found it difficult to comply with their section 20, Children Act 1989 obligations to homeless children responded by attempting to curtail the circumstances in which they would provide such accommodation. We can't be expected to provide accommodation for all of these children, and to fund the knock-on leaving care obligations, was the refrain; the money was not there. But in fact they could be expected to provide the accommodation. They were statutorily obliged to do so. An exasperated House of Lords told them so - twice, in fact, as the message did not sink in the first time (</span><a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/ldjudgmt/jd080227a/hammer-1.htm"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>R (M) v. LB of Hammersmith and Fulham</em> [2008] UKHL 14</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> and</span><a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200809/ldjudgmt/jd090520/appg-1.htm"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>R (G) v Southwark LB Council </em>[2009] UKHL 26</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">)." </span><br />
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Alice Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05381422778632377553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7833348859514341143.post-11321023569801795662016-06-12T11:11:00.000-07:002016-06-12T11:11:12.986-07:00The Last Photograph<span style="font-size: large;">The above photograph shows Mrs E Kilbride on her last day of freedom at the Eaglesham wind farm where she was enjoying a trip away from the care home she hated. Two days later it was alleged by social workers that the GP who worked for the care home had judged Mrs Kilbride to lack capacity to make her own decisions. In their wisdom the professionals decided on Mrs Kilbride`s behalf not to take her for her hospital appointment and in five weeks she was dead. Those five weeks must have been the most wretched of Mrs Kilbride`s life because she was not allowed to see her visitor, got no more fresh air and exercise, and had no further contact with the outside world. </span><br />
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Alice Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05381422778632377553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7833348859514341143.post-6694206489454316482016-05-03T15:50:00.001-07:002016-05-03T15:50:18.293-07:00From early dementia diagnosis to end of life care<div dir="LTR">
<span style="font-size: large;">The worlds first G8 dementia summit was held in London on 11 December 2013, where the alarming statement was made that dementia affects an estimated 35 million people worldwide, a figure set to almost double every 20 years. The summit brought together ministers, researchers, pharmaceutical companies and charities...[1]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At a meeting later in Switzerland, March 2015, called <i>Global Action Against Dementia</i>, Jeremy Hunt made the even more alarming statement: "What we need to do today is to bring the world together to fight dementia. We have to do that because it is a global threat." [2]</span></div>
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"The Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that the first national Dementia Research Institute (DRI) in the UK is to be led by the MRC."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"The DRI, which will bring together world leading expertise in discovery science in the fight against dementia, is set to receive up to £150m in funding and be fully functional by 2020." [3]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So this is getting serious. Is this good news for dementia sufferers and their families? Probably not, not when world leaders, charities and the big pharmaceutical companies are getting together and there is more money to be made in the management of dementia than in the cure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Scotland has its own National Dementia Strategy which will be published later this year in 2016. [4] In <i>Proposal for Scotland<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span>s National Dementia Strategy </i>2016-19, the Scottish Government says it will "continue to focus on its national and local human-rights based approach to improving dementia diagnosis rates..".So they see the early diagnosis of dementia as a human right. But what does that really mean? [5]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act allows those with a dementia diagnosis to be stripped of their capacity and hence all their human rights along with that diagnosis.. It allows social services to make decisions in the incapacitated adult`s `best interests`. As documented here in the case of Mrs E Kilbride, it means adults may be transported against their will to a care home, followed by the loss of their home, possessions and savings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The government wants to prevent avoidable hospitalisation of people with dementia because cure and treatment is for others, not for the demented. There should be a greater focus on `anticipatory` planning, that is, anticipating - predicting death - and responding accordingly. No anxiety about the Liverpool Care Pathway, or any of the other equally bad pathways, is demonstrated here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">[1<b>] </b></span><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/g8-dementia-summit-global-action-against-dementia/g8-dementia-summit-global-action-against-dementia-11-december-2013"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/g8-dementia-summit-global-action-against-dementia/g8-dementia-summit-global-action-against-dementia-11-december-2013</span></a></div>
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Alice Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05381422778632377553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7833348859514341143.post-43504371220806151302016-03-07T18:42:00.001-08:002016-03-07T18:42:30.490-08:00The dementia scam<span style="font-size: large;">"UK Column News is worth looking at because it reports on the government`s intention that dementia statistics should rise to two million by 2050."</span><br />
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Alice Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05381422778632377553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7833348859514341143.post-4583142276475065072016-01-23T13:27:00.001-08:002016-01-23T13:27:11.034-08:00Charities shared elderly lady`s contact details<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"The </span><a href="http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/directory/company/449/fundraising_standards_board"><u><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">FRSB</span></u></a><span style="font-size: large;"> found that out of 1,442 charities that participated in its investigation 99 had her in their database. Each sent her an average of six mailings per year, totalling 466 mailings in one year. "<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After I attempted to expose bad practice at Individual Solutions SK providing care for vulnerable adults and the elderly, I have been subjected to continued harassment and abuse that persists today. I even attempted to get the GMB Trade Union involved so that I could have someone fighting my corner, but they refused to support me.I turned to Manchester’s Employment Tribunal for help, in the hope that malpractice would be exposed. I soon discovered that I was mistaken. The current laws do not protect vulnerable adults, elderly people and whistleblowers like me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Manchester’s tribunal ruled in favour of Stockport Council and Individual Solutions SK, disregarding much of the documented evidence in support of my case. A witness who had travelled 200 miles to give evidence was not allowed to speak to the tribunal. Many whistleblowers are threatened with cost orders, leading to the withdrawal of cases. I have been ordered to pay £5,000 in costs, for more details </span><a href="http://olesi.com/cost-order/"><span style="font-size: large;">http://olesi.com/cost-order/</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"As of October 1, 2015 the urgent out-of-hours GP </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/l"><u><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">service provider</span></u></a><span style="font-size: large;"> has said it will be the responsibility of the home to arrange for the death to be verified and for the undertakers and family to be informed."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"When approached by The Herald, a spokesman confirmed the decision has been made but added Devon Doctors has been going "over and beyond its statutory obligations" up until this point."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"He said: "The reality is that this is already what happens in many areas of the country."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"There are a number of organisations which provide training for care home staff in the verification of death and it is entirely legitimate for anyone who has successfully completed this training to verify death."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Verification of death, he explained, is different from certifying death, which explores the reasons why a patient has died and which, the law dictates, must be done by a medical practitioner and does not require the attendance of a doctor."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"He added: "We envisage that care homes will continue to contact us when a death occurs during the out-of-hours period and we will continue to support them, putting them in touch with one of our clinicians to explore whether it was an expected death and, when this is the case, giving them the confidence to go ahead and verify it."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"The change in practice only applies to care homes and Devon Doctors will continue to attend any expected deaths in private residences during the out-of-hours period."</span><br />
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Read more: </span><a href="http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Doctors-longer-verify-deaths-Plymouth-care-homes/story-27609279-detail/story.html"><u><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Doctors-longer-verify-deaths-Plymouth-care-homes/story-27609279-detail/story.html#ixzz3ist9fZft</span></u></a><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Alice Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05381422778632377553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7833348859514341143.post-46707864801027383052015-07-29T14:00:00.001-07:002015-07-29T14:00:42.131-07:00Predicting death ?<strong>Jane`s Story:</strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">"Predicting death in a time frame of three to four days, or even at any other specific time, is not possible scientifically. This determination in the LCP leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy. The personal views of the physician or other medical team members of perceived quality of life or low likelihood of a good outcome are probably central in putting a patient on the LCP."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">"Patients are put on the LCP by multi-disciplinary teams rather than by physicians. This indicates management decisions supplanted medical judgements. It is a decision with an end in view. The patient is dying. Why? Because we say they are dying. Why? Because we have decided."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">"On the wards there has been a change in attitudes with the introduction of terminal care pathways, the most familiar of which is the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP)."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">"We know that prognosis is not accurate and we often get our predictions of prognosis wrong. A tool based upon prognosis is therefore dangerous as it may become a decision that a person will die. Often on such pathways triple therapy is used (with morphine, midazolam a sedative and a hyoscine which is a drug to dry secretions). This means that the patient, who may or may not be dying, is given drugs that may hasten or even cause death. This is particularly true if hydration is also withdrawn. On such a regime the patient cannot survive."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I think one of the problems with the Liverpool Care Pathway is it’s predicated on a false premise, namely that you can accurately diagnose death; you can make an accurate prognosis as to when that person is going to die, within the next few hours or days. And there’s no scientific evidence that we can do that. And I know of no calibration tools that we can use to say just how accurately we can make that prognosis. That’s the danger. Now, if you then sedate the patient, stop observations, stop interventions, and stop food and fluids, the patient must die. Whether or not they would have died anyway, they must die if you adopt that regime in full."</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">"Doctors are being pressurized to participate in the LCP even when they feel very uncomfortable about it, being told that the LCP is national policy. Some doctors are losing control of the clinical care of their own patients."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">"The prognosis of imminent death may well be a self-fulfilling prophecy. The LCP's combination of narcotics and dehydration is ultimately lethal. In many cases it appears that there is a deliberate intention of hastening death."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">"The LCP is usually applied without the knowledge or consent of the patient. The lack of assessment of mental capacity of patients and the lawful obtaining of <b>informed consent</b> are serious concerns..."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">"Discussion with the family and the multi-disciplinary team should only have proceeded in the event that my mum was not competent to make this decision herself. As I have reported to you, on the very day that implementation proceeded, capacity was demonstrated when my mum remonstrated with the examining physician not to manhandle her in the manner that he did."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">"You state at item 12. that the family had agreed but the decision of the patient should have taken precedent. That decision was not sought and no test of competency was made as is required."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">"When mum declined intervention previously in regard to the treatment offered, that decision was respected. Why, then, in the respect of intervention via the LCP, was her decision not sought likewise?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://liverpool-care-pathway-a-national-sc.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/liverpool-care-pathway-janes-story.html">http://liverpool-care-pathway-a-national-sc.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/liverpool-care-pathway-janes-story.html</a></div>
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Alice Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05381422778632377553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7833348859514341143.post-64787165309727063512015-07-29T13:50:00.002-07:002015-07-29T13:50:28.819-07:00Three months for banned solicitor<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>"A BANNED SOLICITOR</b> who posed as a colleague to get round a ban on practising law has been found guilty of breach of interdict and jailed for three months - after leaving an ELEVEN year trail of destroyed clients & legal problems across Scotland."<br />
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"<a href="http://petercherbi.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20G%20O%27Donnell"><b><u><span style="color: blue;">John Gerard O’Donnell</span></u></b></a> <b>(64) <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">–</span> </b>who also appeared in a special BBC Scotland investigation <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">–</span> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-25695719"><b><u><span style="color: blue;">Lawyers Behaving Badly</span></u></b></a> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">–</span> was finally sentenced by Lord Stewart at the Court of Session on Friday. However, O’Donnell was freed for a period of two weeks to enable him to decide if he wants to appeal."</div>
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"The custodial sentence comes after a catalogue of evidence heard during court proceedings revealed many examples where the <a href="http://www.lawscot.org.uk/"><b><u><span style="color: blue;">Law Society of Scotland</span></u></b></a> system of self regulation <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">–</span> lawyers investigating themselves <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">–</span> fails to protect the public...."</div>
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"However, the judge Lord Stewart said he had no option but to send O'Donnell to prison. Lord Stewart said:<b> "In order to punish Mr O'Donnell and to deter others, the court must impose a custodial sentence</b>." </div>
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"One of O’Donnell’s victims <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">–</span> widow Elizabeth Campbell (71) <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">–</span> only discovered O’Donnell was not Colin Davidson after she visited Diary of Injustice law blog and saw his picture along with media investigations into O’Donnell’s decade long trail of client scams."</div>
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"Mrs Campbell had been referred to John O’Donnell by <a href="http://petercherbi.blogspot.com/search/label/Gilbert%20Anderson"><b><u><span style="color: blue;">Gilbert S Anderson</span></u></b></a> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">–</span> who worked at Hamilton Citizens Advice Bureau - in a position funded by the Scottish Legal Aid Board. "</div>
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"Letters obtained by the Sunday Mail newspaper & Diary of Injustice - revealed Anderson sent O’Donnell a handwritten note saying <b>"possibly in my mind a cash for Colin £3000"</b> indicating he hoped O’Donnell would be able to scam fees from the elderly widow."</div>
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<b></b><a href="http://petercherbi.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/to-catch-brief-it-takes-eleven-years.html"><b>http://petercherbi.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/to-catch-brief-it-takes-eleven-years.html</b></a>Alice Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05381422778632377553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7833348859514341143.post-35226561825056546552015-07-03T09:56:00.002-07:002015-07-03T09:56:46.234-07:00Police assist bailiffs to evict Mr Crawford<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">In January, </span><a href="http://www.itv.com/news/central/story/2015-01-23/hundreds-gather-to-stop-cancer-patient-being-evicted-from-home/"><u><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">more than 300 people gathered</span></u></a><span style="font-size: large;"> on the quiet street in Nottingham to help stop Mr Crawford being evicted</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was the second time the cancer patient had received help from total strangers, after </span><a href="http://www.itv.com/news/central/story/2014-07-25/200-strangers-block-bailiffs-from-evicting-cancer-sufferer/"><u><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">hundreds travelled from across the country</span></u></a><span style="font-size: large;"> in July 2014 to stop his eviction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Speaking to ITV News Central, Mr Crawford claimed the bailiffs waited until he was "at least two hours away" and waited for his daughter to leave the house before they "smashed the door down".</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He also claimed there was no warrant and the bailiffs did not identify themselves.</span> <br />
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<a href="http://www.itv.com/news/central/2015-07-02/bailiffs-evict-cancer-patient-from-home/"><span style="font-size: large;">http://www.itv.com/news/central/2015-07-02/bailiffs-evict-cancer-patient-from-home/</span></a>Alice Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05381422778632377553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7833348859514341143.post-80874029684257880972015-02-01T19:22:00.001-08:002015-02-01T19:34:35.671-08:00Still fighting LCP at Westminster Health Forum<span style="font-size: large;">On Tuesday the 13th January, Peter Tulloch together with Eddie Woodhead and Karen Colligan, attended the Westminster Health Forum. As a delegate he was entitled to submit an article for publication with the transcript. This he has done and his article can be read below. The transcript was made available to all the delegates and speakers `as well as parliamentarians and central government officials with an interest in the subject matter who could not be there on the day, and a wider audience of relevant organisations, businesses, academic groups and individuals. Here is Peter Tulloch`s article:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>An unforgiving pathway</strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Two years ago Baroness Knight wrote to me about the "Medical Mafia" and their determination "to keep their current practice of killing off elderly patients who are ‘blocking’ a bed." In the past few years there has been a widespread public outcry against deaths on the LCP, and Professor Mark Glaser characterised the LCP as being the "Most corrupt practice in British Medicine" (Daily Mail, 5 November, 2012). Glaser said that he personally has rescued "dozens" of people from certain death on the LCP. The day before the forum there was a report in the Health Service Journal (12 January, 2015) that there is a ‘sustained’ fall in the life expectancy of older people in some areas. The report suggests that this may be due to cuts in social care. I consider a contributory factor may also be the ‘Medical Mafia’ and their continued use of the LCP. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The high mortality rate at Mid‐Staffs has been linked to the LCP and according to Anthony Wrigley in the Nursing Times (1 October, 2014), he is "aware that certain institutions have gone back to relying on it." And that there is a reluctance to admit this "due to its tarnished reputation." More worrying is his claim that the continued use of the LCP is due to "confusion" about the best approach to end of life care. All of this was swept under the carpet at Tuesday’s forum and I came away with the impression that, despite all their backslapping, confusion and chaos remain integral to palliative care. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The LCP was introduced into hospitals by Palliative Medicine but the conclusion of the Neuberger Review that the LCP should be scrapped is evidence that their presence makes things worse. The only evidence‐based study on the effectiveness of the LCP was made by Constantini et al as reported in the Lancet (16 October, 2013) and the accompanying editorial concludes: </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"that the benefits generated by the systematic implementation of the pathway are, at best, slight. In view of the little or no clinical benefit compared with standard care, any harms to individuals exposed to LCP, including premature death, are unacceptable." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This research paper showed that there was no advantage to palliative care over best medical practice. I suggest that there would be better patient outcomes if Palliative care teams were removed from general hospitals. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In Hansard of 18 July 2014, Baroness Neuberger, speaking to the House of Lords of her review into the LCP, stated "It is important that we found no evidence that it had been used to hasten people’s deaths…" This is simply not the case. Her review panel had evidence from </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">me concerning my mother and this was acknowledged by them in a letter to me dated 7 March 2013: </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My account is not necessarily proof, but it is evidence. I have obtained information that had been previously withheld from me and my account is now much more robust; and supported by clinical evidence. In any case, it was not the remit of the Neuberger review to investigate allegations of wrongdoing, and this of course they never did. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On Tuesday I said to Baroness Neuberger that I was "puzzled" why she thought it was "important" that they had not found evidence that the LCP had been used to shorten people’s lives. She replied that I had "misinterpreted" her. How? I only said that I was puzzled by her statement to the house. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If we really want to see ‘compassionate’ end of life care, I have a suggestion: instruct the police to conduct a thorough investigation into all allegations of misuse of the LCP. If criminal proceedings were brought against those who have misused the LCP, vulnerable patients would be given best medical practice care until the last moment of their natural lifespan. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Information about Health Forum below:</span><br />
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