The doctor who raised the alarm about the Liverpool Care Pathway says science and religion are closely linked
Topic: NHS
My brother’s happy death was the kind we all wish for
Posted on Monday, 5 November 2012
It was a significant contrast to the sad, hasty and solitary deaths so many people are subjected to, not least on the Liverpool Care Pathway
State rejects archbishop’s call for review of care pathway
Posted on Friday, 19 October 2012
Department of Health says it will not launch an inquiry into the Liverpool Care Pathway despite plea from archbishop
The number of ‘do not resuscitate’ (DNR) notices being imposed without consultation is now a national scandal. What will the BMA do about it?
Posted on Friday, 14 September 2012
It’s time for a few doctors to be prosecuted or struck off
The reality of the NHS is very different to that presented at the Olympic ceremony
Posted on Wednesday, 1 August 2012
The numbers dying under the state healthcare provider belies its image
Ethicist says keeping people alive wastes money
Posted on Thursday, 19 July 2012
A professor has suggested in the BMJ that hydrating and feeding dementia patients ‘skews’ resources
Margaret Forrester was fired by the NHS for giving a booklet on the effects of abortion to a colleague who made no complaint: how deep will this purge go?
Posted on Monday, 4 June 2012
Anti-abortion doctors are threatened with being struck off: now this totalitarian sacking. What’s next?
NHS trust drops threat of dismissal against pro-life nurse
Posted on Wednesday, 4 April 2012
Catholic nurse threatened with sack for refusing to work on abortion ward wins case without going to court
As I said last time, I rather like the look of the ‘turbo-Catholic’ candidate Rick Santorum: but about the NHS he is simply deranged
Posted on Monday, 9 January 2012
Orthodox American Catholics seem to think that doctrinaire neo-liberalism is the logical consequence of faith: they’re just wrong
The British are rather picky about their scandals
We would rather be outraged by Catholics and horses than by state institutions