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Your Health Is Of "No Clinical Value"
The  major effort to cut the NHS bill by £20 billion is leading to the  rationing of healthcare which can only result in unnecessary deaths and  greatly increased suffering for many people. Yet in his wisdom, Mr  Cameron tells us that his “health reforms” are not about cutting  services and damaging the wellbeing of the British people, but about  “choice”.
This  “choice” means that the NHS will no longer be allowed to carry out 57  different surgical procedures. A government directive has stated:
operations which will only be carried out in exceptional circumstances include, removing tonsils, varicose veins, hysterectomies, fitting grommets, removing skin lesions, haemorrhoid surgery, wisdom teeth extraction, cataracts and joint replacements.
It  has been  stated that even operations with an 80% success rate will be  categorised as of “no clinical value” and stopped. These types of  surgery are classed as “elective”, even though they may mean an enormous  difference to the quality of life a person may have and can mean that  without surgery, a condition will then deteriorate and could become  acute or even fatal.
Don't  imagine that this policy is hypothetical and may never happen, because  it is already being implemented in selected areas which include Bury,  Oldham, Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale.
Another  area of healthcare which is undoubtedly leading to untimely deaths is  the practice of passive  euthanasia. Since 1993 in the Bland ruling, assisted suicides which  involve omissions, i.e the removal of life-saving care are not illegal.  This is a very distressing subject, which many of us may not want to  even consider, but this is happening now in the UK.
Barrister,  Jamie Bogle has said the following about the current BMA guidelines:  “In fact the guidelines do not refer only to patients who are dying ...  It may also refer to a serious long-term chronic state.
The  problem here is that we are talking about withdrawing food and fluids  and because in the very narrow circumstances of persistent vegetative  state, that has been re-defined as treatment,  what these guidelines will do is widen it right out into a whole range  of conditions, many of them, non-terminal, in which we will be talking  about intentionally terminating a patient's life by dehydration. That  must be wrong.”
You  might want to read the above again and bear in mind that here in  England and Wales, nutrition and even water, if they have to be given  medically, are categorised as “treatment” and can be withdrawn in  certain circumstances. There is every indication that this is an  increasing practice in our hospitals.
Don't Mention The War
Palliative  care, often called “comfort care” is carried out by first sedating the  patient. This is known as TS, (Terminal Sedation). It is also known as  total sedation or palliative sedation, but regardless of it's name it's  purpose is “to induce a state of decreased or absent awareness  (unconsciousness)”.
Nutrients  and fluids are then withdrawn and the patient is allowed to starve and  dehydrate. This approach has been adopted in many UK NHS Hospitals.
During  the 1930's, Nazi Germany instigated a programme of euthanasia known as  Aktion T4, named after Tiergartenstrasse 4, the street address of the  headquarters of the Gemeinnutzige Stiftung fur Heilund Anstaltspflege,  translated  literally as the innocuous sounding “Charitable Foundation  for Cure and Institutional Care.”
 
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