Each year, tens of thousands of elderly and terminally ill patients are quietly euthanised in NHS facilities. In hospitals, care homes and hospices, behind closed doors, their deaths are hastened in what appears to be a caring and humane way. But how has this practice of euthanasia – illegal in the UK and carrying a
By Dr Vernon Coleman If you have relatives or friends in a care home or hospital of any kind, check they haven’t been given a blanket DNR notice. It is now commonplace to put DNR notices on young people with learning disorders, and the majority of care homes in the UK did not respond when
Midazolam is a commonly used drug in palliative care, think of it as diazepam on steroids. Midazolam is also a drug that has been used in executions by lethal injection in the USA. UK regulators state that you should only receive midazolam in a hospital or doctor’s office that has the equipment that is needed