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“Top doctor’s chilling claim: The NHS kills off 130,000 elderly patients every year”

Professor Patrick Pullicino said doctors had turned the use of a controversial “death pathway” into the equivalent of euthanasia of the elderly.  NHS doctors are prematurely ending the lives of thousands of elderly hospital patients because they are difficult to manage or to free up beds, a senior consultant claimed….Medical criticisms of the Liverpool Care Pathway were voiced nearly three years ago.

Mail Online
“Top doctor’s chilling claim: The NHS kills off 130,000 elderly patients every year”
June 19, 2012
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