The dementia scam

"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."

"They want two million people to be diagnosed as dementia sufferers by 2050."

"They want GPs to increase the diagnosis. They are going to make it easier and more profitable for GPs to diagnose people with dementia. "

"Of course, once (people) have been diagnosed with dementia, their property can be taken from them, or literally stolen in some cases."

"The UK Column mentions the document Prime Minister`s Challenge on Dementia 2020 in which they don`t talk about curing dementia; they don`t talk about research into dementia; they are talking about living with dementia... What they are doing here is creating a revenue stream for private corporations that will work in the pharmaceutical industry and health care and so on - because what they are going to have is people who are living on a long term basis with dementia .... They are putting sixty million pounds a year into this."

http://www.ukcolumn.org/

The global trend towards assisted suicide

Assisted Suicide: From The UK Column News
Alex Thomson discusses assisted suicide, which seems to have become policy in many more countries ...
Posted by UK Column on Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Charities shared elderly lady`s contact details

"The FRSB 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. "

"The FRSB believes that its sample is unlikely to represent the true amount of mailings she received, and that she was actually being sent around 2,800. "
"Some 24 charities had shared her contact details with others, but just 21 could confirm that they had permission to do so. Seventy charities had obtained her data from a third party, such as another charity or commercial list supplier. "

"In most cases permission was assumed and the charity expected her to contact them if she wanted to be removed from their database. "

"Just 14 of the 99 charities provided an opt-out box on every piece of communication, ten included it on the first piece of communication, two included a tick-box once a year, 56 provided contact information and 16 had no opt-out options at all. "

http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/21119/frsb_report_critical_data_sharing_by_charities

Grandma B`s future is going to be determined by secret Court of Protection

On 20 July 2015, Grandma B was brought to HMP Hull to visit her loyal son and carer Peter. Her face was bruised and she showed signs of neglect. She is also badly traumatised after her abusers have stripped her of her assets and unceremoniously deposited her in a home against her wishes, instead of allowing her to spend her remaining years in her own home. York social services has not allowed Grandma B to contact her loyal son since then, which is emotional abuse. She was too confused to be able to say exactly where she is being held, but believes she is in a home in the York area. Can anybody help find out where she is ?

Posted By: Andy Peacher October 6, 2015

http://freedomtalkradio.co.uk/freedom-talk-radio/secret-court-to-determine-grandma-bs-case-on-9-october-2015/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork

Ramping up palliative care in Scotland

"More than 10,000 Scots who could benefit from palliative care towards the end of their life die each year without receiving it, a report has suggested."

"Professor David Clark, of Glasgow University, said an estimated 40,000 people in Scotland could benefit from the specialist form of care."

"However, the report, produced for Holyrood's Health Committee, claims about a quarter of the group might not receive it."

"Projections based on data from England suggest an estimated 10,600 people in Scotland die each year without receiving any palliative care."

"It said that "reliable studies" looking at the need for palliative care estimated that "in rich countries around 82% of all people who die would benefit from palliative care" - with this equating to about 40,000 people a year in Scotland."

"The report stated: "In England, slightly less robust estimates have been produced which indicate the numbers that might currently be receiving palliative care."

"These have been used to form estimates of those who might benefit from but are currently not receiving palliative care, giving an estimate for Scotland of 10,600 people who die each year without receiving palliative care."

"Palliative care aims to prevent and alleviate suffering caused by life-limiting illnesses, particularly towards the end of life. The UK was the first county in the world to recognise it as being a specialist field in medicine in 1987." [And many elderly have died/been killed before their time ever since.]

"Duncan McNeil, convener of the Health and Sport Committee, said MSPs had heard "anecdotally there are serious deficits in the quality of palliative care being provided for in Scotland" when they were considering the issue of assisted suicide." [So he is interested in assisted suicide as well as the palliative death pathway? That figures.]

"Deputy convener Bob Doris said: "The provision of end-of-life care is not one that is going to go away as our population ages and more and more people need care at the end of life." [All life ends. It always has. So what difference should an ageing population make? Really what this means is that people are living too long and something needs to be done about it.]

"The Scottish Government is already looking into this area as they prepare to publish their framework for action on palliative and end of life care. We hope that this research and our inquiry findings will provide some helpful insight to this."

"Health secretary Shona Robison said: "I welcome Professor David Clark's contribution to this important debate. This Government is absolutely committed to ensuring that palliative and end of life care is delivered to the highest standards, in every situation, right across the country..."
http://m.stv.tv/news/scotland/1328722-more-than-10000-scots-die-every-year-without-palliative-care/  My 96 year old father died on the morning after his birthday having spent the evening with his family. We were all laughing as he recounted some of his best stories. He passed away peacefully without anybody`s assistance.

Death takes care of itself. It`s the living who sometimes need help.

Whistleblower asks for support to protect elderly and vulnerable

"During my time at Individual Solutions SK, there were several different occasions when my colleagues and I cried at our desks, empathising with adults, vulnerable elderly people and home support workers."

"Adults and vulnerable elderly people would ring to ask why their carer had not arrived, why the visit was missed and as a result they were hungry. Telling adults and vulnerable elderly people there are no carers to come was difficult and painful. I fed back to management several times and one day I went to top management and was told that Individual solutions SK provides high quality care and if you go to your MP we will deal with you."

https://www.change.org/p/prime-minister-david-cameron-support-vulnerable-adults-and-the-elderly-by-protecting-whistleblowers?source_location=petition_footer&algorithm=promoted

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.

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 http://olesi.com/cost-order/

https://www.change.org/p/prime-minister-david-cameron-support-vulnerable-adults-and-the-elderly-by-protecting-whistleblowers?source_location=petition_footer&algorithm=promoted

Phoebe Olesi Muchilwa has a petition on change.org

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Care homes provide palliative care and then verify death ?

"DEVON Doctors have announced that out-of-hours GPs will no longer be called to verify deaths in Plymouth care homes – to help ensure help can always be given to the living."

"As of October 1, 2015 the urgent out-of-hours GP service provider 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."

"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."

"He said: "The reality is that this is already what happens in many areas of the country."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

Read more: http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Doctors-longer-verify-deaths-Plymouth-care-homes/story-27609279-detail/story.html#ixzz3ist9fZft

Predicting death ?

Jane`s Story:

Professor Pullicino -

"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."

"There is no data for telling if someone is in the last hours or days of life, so the actual decision is not a scientific one. The actual decision is an intuition by the group that's making the decision. If you start to say somebody has a poor prognosis, then you make a self-fulfilling prophecy."

Dr, Philip Howard –

 

"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."

"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)."

"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."

"On The Big Question –

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."

John Smeaton –
 

"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."

"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."

"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 informed consent are serious concerns..."

 

"My discussion of events leading up to the implementation of the LCP is documented and has been submitted to you. This aside, the issue does remain that the law and the Version 12 LCP does require informed consent by the patient and this did not proceed."

"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."

"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."

"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?"

"You speak of ‘best interests’ but ‘best interest’ would have required the intervention she had declined. That could not proceed, obviously, because, without her permission, that would have amounted to an assault."

"Therefore, in not seeking her permission to do so and making no test of competency to give her permission to do so, enacting the LCP and putting my mum on a syringe driver for 18 hours also amounted to an assault. "

http://liverpool-care-pathway-a-national-sc.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/liverpool-care-pathway-janes-story.html

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Three months for banned solicitor

"A BANNED SOLICITOR 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."

"John Gerard O’Donnell (64) – who also appeared in a special BBC Scotland investigation – Lawyers Behaving Badly – 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."

"The custodial sentence comes after a catalogue of evidence heard during court proceedings revealed many examples where the Law Society of Scotland system of self regulation – lawyers investigating themselves – fails to protect the public...."

"However, the judge Lord Stewart said he had no option but to send O'Donnell to prison. Lord Stewart said: "In order to punish Mr O'Donnell and to deter others, the court must impose a custodial sentence."

"One of O’Donnell’s victims – widow Elizabeth Campbell (71) – 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."

"Mrs Campbell had been referred to John O’Donnell by Gilbert S Anderson – who worked at Hamilton Citizens Advice Bureau - in a position funded by the Scottish Legal Aid Board. "

"Letters obtained by the Sunday Mail newspaper & Diary of Injustice - revealed Anderson sent O’Donnell a handwritten note saying "possibly in my mind a cash for Colin £3000" indicating he hoped O’Donnell would be able to scam fees from the elderly widow."

http://petercherbi.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/to-catch-brief-it-takes-eleven-years.html

Police assist bailiffs to evict Mr Crawford

In January, more than 300 people gathered on the quiet street in Nottingham to help stop Mr Crawford being evicted

It was the second time the cancer patient had received help from total strangers, after hundreds travelled from across the country in July 2014 to stop his eviction.

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".

He also claimed there was no warrant and the bailiffs did not identify themselves.

http://www.itv.com/news/central/2015-07-02/bailiffs-evict-cancer-patient-from-home/