Over 75? Sign here if you're ready for death: Please sign our Do Not resuscitate order !!

[citizenB]

Over 75? Sign here if you're ready for death: Please sign our Do Not resuscitate order !! GPs to ask ALL older patients if they'll agree to a 'do not resuscitate' order

 

New NHS guidelines urge GPs to draw up end-of-life plans for over 75s

Also applies to younger patients with serious conditions, such as cancer

Told to ask if patients wants doctors to resuscitate them if health worsens

Medical professionals say it is 'blatantly wrong' and will frighten elderly

 

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3056621/Over-75-Sign-ready-death-GPs-ask-older-patients-ll-agree-not-resuscitate-order.html#ixzz3YVnoISMH

 

 

 

Doctors are being told to ask all patients over 75 if they will agree to a 'do not resuscitate' order.

 

New NHS guidelines urge GPs to draw up end-of-life plans for over-75s, as well as younger patients suffering from cancer, dementia, heart disease or serious lung conditions.

 

They are also being told to ask whether the patient wants doctors to try to resuscitate them if their health suddenly deteriorates.

 

 

 

 

So, it is ok for this to happen when the NHS want to save money, but someone who is already suffering from a dreadful disease who wants to end their life.. Cannot do so ??

[citizenB]

The age group they are targeting will include those who have fought in the 2nd world war, Korea, etc.. they will have contributed to the "system" by way of tax and insurance, etc.

 

21st Century Britain.. what a way to treat our elderly !!

[citizenB]

 

Euthanasia. Rationing. Assisted Suicide. These are the kinds of concerns the pro-life community brought up when Congress pushed through Obamacare and government-run health care. These concerns are already becoming real in the Untied States, but a new story out of the United Kingdom should give Americans a hint as to what’s next.

 

Nurses who are a part of in-home health care programs for the sick, elderly and disabled are coming forward to say they’ve been told to ask such patients not if they need medical help but if they need assistance in killing themselves.

 

The nurses say patients are asked via a form if they want to sign a DNR order making it so no efforts would be made to save their lives in emergency circumstances.

 

The elderly patients are given these forms and asked these questions as a part of Britain’s NHS program, the government-run health care scheme. Experts fear patients will feel pressured into giving consent to avoid trouble.

 

 

The forms were sent to patients in June and then returned to their doctors and they target patients over 75 and patients with long-term medical conditions — both of whom may be vulnerable to pressure to end their lives to ration their health care.

 

For the full article. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/08/20/nurses-on-home-visits-to-patients-told-to-ask-can-we-kill-you/

 

Seems as though it has been going on since at least June 2014.

[citizenB]

Roy Lilley, a health policy analyst whose mother was visited by a nurse with the form, described the policy as callous.

 

‘Elderly, frail but otherwise healthy people are being asked, by complete strangers, to sign a form agreeing they shouldn’t be resuscitated,’ he said. ‘It is outrageous. People will be frightened to death thinking the district nurses know something they don’t and will feel obliged to sign the form so as not to be thought a nuisance.

 

 

From the same article linked above.

[citizenB]

p3t3r

 

I think the point of the article is that, some elderly people will believe that they are more less obliged to sign these forms, especially where a trusted medical professional is asking them to do this.

 

Wasn't the main issue in the Euthanasia arguments that vulnerable elderly people would need to be protected from greedy relatives ! Now they just need to be protected from politicians and a crumbling NHS !

[citizenB]

Not only would it save money for the NHS, but the state pensions of these people would also cease.

 

As the retirement age is gradually being edged toward 70.. asking people to sign their own death warrant for 75 is quite cynical !

[citizenB]

Sali, I've done a quick google... The amount of bonus is £55

 

Full article can be read here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2468112/Revealed-How-GPs-paid-50-bonus-elderly-death-lists.html

 

 

I can see the GPs in Stockton on Tees are going to start moaning then..

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32542880

 

It would appear if you are born in Belgravia, London you can expect to live until you are 91 years old.

 

However, if you are born in Stockton on Tees, your life expectancy is 67 years.

 

So.. not only will the GP not receive a bonus for signing you up for a DNR at 75, but the poor guy who will pay into a pension all his working life, wont even live to receive his state pension ?

 

The good news is, that they can die knowing that they have contributed to the State Pension pot for someone born in Belgravia !!