Tomsanguish
10-08-2009, 08:02 PM
Palliative Care Teams, Training organisations and others interested in Palliative Care Worldwide are receiving the below letter.
www.tomsanguish.com (http://www.tomsanguish.com)
re: Thomas Milner Case No. 6 Patients Association Report.
My father was dying. He had a syringe driver already in situ when he was transferred onto a Palliative Care ward in Sheffield.
The Consultant failed to 'calculate and consider' any of the considerable amounts of extra prn that had been given in the previous 24 hours and left the syringe driver holding just 10mgs. Morphine when she did her round.
(The Syringe Driver had been in situ for 32 hours when she did her round. He was not morphine naive either when the syringe driver was set up as he had been receiving considerable amounts of morphine subcutaneously for 2 days prior to the set up!).
Rules and guidelines should be scrapped and replaced by common sense and compassion. Everybody is different.
Sir Andrew Cash OBE no less wrote to me a couple of weeks ago listing set up time and refill of the syringe driver. These were ERRONEOUS. We have the medical notes and know exactly when the syringe driver was set up and refilled.
http://www.aquarena-springs.com/images/Hospital-Letter.gif
Dr. Richmond of the Sheffield Hospital Trust phoned me last week after I had pointed out Sir Andrew's mistake (nearly 4 years after my father's death). This Doctor would NOT stand by the times as listed in the letter when asked to do so.
The Prime Minister, Lady Finlay of Llandaff, Lord Turnbull, Lord Joffe, Christine Beasley and Liam Donaldson have been contacted. I wonder what they will make of it all. The letter sent to them and the email confirming Dr. Richmond's refusal to standby the false times can be seen at www.tomsanguish.com (http://www.tomsanguish.com)
Palliative Care in in crisis as some leading Professors and Doctors wrote in the Telegraph 3/9/09
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8235106.stm
Time to rethink and regroup.
www.tomsanguish.com (http://www.tomsanguish.com)
re: Thomas Milner Case No. 6 Patients Association Report.
My father was dying. He had a syringe driver already in situ when he was transferred onto a Palliative Care ward in Sheffield.
The Consultant failed to 'calculate and consider' any of the considerable amounts of extra prn that had been given in the previous 24 hours and left the syringe driver holding just 10mgs. Morphine when she did her round.
(The Syringe Driver had been in situ for 32 hours when she did her round. He was not morphine naive either when the syringe driver was set up as he had been receiving considerable amounts of morphine subcutaneously for 2 days prior to the set up!).
Rules and guidelines should be scrapped and replaced by common sense and compassion. Everybody is different.
Sir Andrew Cash OBE no less wrote to me a couple of weeks ago listing set up time and refill of the syringe driver. These were ERRONEOUS. We have the medical notes and know exactly when the syringe driver was set up and refilled.
http://www.aquarena-springs.com/images/Hospital-Letter.gif
Dr. Richmond of the Sheffield Hospital Trust phoned me last week after I had pointed out Sir Andrew's mistake (nearly 4 years after my father's death). This Doctor would NOT stand by the times as listed in the letter when asked to do so.
The Prime Minister, Lady Finlay of Llandaff, Lord Turnbull, Lord Joffe, Christine Beasley and Liam Donaldson have been contacted. I wonder what they will make of it all. The letter sent to them and the email confirming Dr. Richmond's refusal to standby the false times can be seen at www.tomsanguish.com (http://www.tomsanguish.com)
Palliative Care in in crisis as some leading Professors and Doctors wrote in the Telegraph 3/9/09
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8235106.stm
Time to rethink and regroup.