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Hard-working carers given respite thanks to inititive
10:50am Sunday 28th October 2012 in Local News
HARD-WORKING carers who look after people suffering from cancer were treated to a special getaway.
An outdoor experience session was held at Ivy Farm, in East Mersea, with survival expert John Wills, on Saturday.
The initiative has put on with the support of Colchester Hospital University NHS Trust, Macmillan Cancer Support and Greenpath Ventures.
“They’re killing me.. get me out of here”: Scandal of death of a 90-year-old dementia patient due to NHS failings
I just wish we could have nursed him at home.
When dementia sufferer Robin Melville was admitted to hospital after several falls at home his family hoped he would be nursed back to health. But two weeks later the 90-year-old died after falling from his bed, which had been raised 4ft off the ground and left with the guard rail down
The grandfather suffered brain damage, a fractured skull and broken ribs in the fall before dying from pneumonia. Bosses at Portsmouth’s Hospitals’ NHS Trust dispute that Mr Melville had died because of the fall in 2009. But now, after a three-year legal fight, the hospital has apologised and paid compensation.
Doctors to launch investigation into Liverpool Care Pathway
Doctors are to investigate whether the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway, which is supposed to alleviate suffering, is actually being used to deliberately hasten death.
11:27AM BST 24 Oct 2012
Palliative care doctors are preparing to open an investigation in concerns that the Liverpool Care Pathway is being used to deliberately hasten the death of elderly and terminally-ill patients.
The Association for Palliative Medicine, representing over 1,000 doctors working in hospices and specialist palliative care units throughout the country, is going to carry out research to see if the LCP is operating as a “euthanasia pathway”.
