A CONTROVERSIAL programme which allows doctors in some cases to withdraw food and water from dying patients is used in Jersey but is ?not euthanasia?, the Health Minister has said.
Deputy Anne Pryke was responding to a question from Senator Sarah Ferguson about the Liverpool Care Pathway, a programme for delivering palliative care to people with a terminal illness. There has been criticism in the UK press recently about the programme, which recommends in some circumstances doctors withdraw treatment, food and water from sedated patients in their final days. Family members have complained that their relatives were denied rehydration in hospital and died in acute pain and discomfort with no knowledge of, or agreement to, being put on the pathway.
Senator Ferguson said that she had concerns that the programme might be used to ?hasten death? and this had been compounded by the fact that it was reported that UK hospitals were being paid to use the Liverpool Care Pathway.
Full story in Thursday?s JEP
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