Thursday, 23 October 2014

Dementia, Targets, £55 per patient – Who benefits?


OPEN LETTER FOR CIRCULATION   
We will all get old one day even those making these decisions. So ask yourselves whether you would wish for what you are proposing or condoning.
 
Dementia, Targets, £55 per patient – Who benefits?
 
Dear Simon Stevens, CEO NHS England and Dr Michael McBride Chief Medical Officer NICE,
 
Under FOI:
1) Please tell me the origin of this latest edict using targets to diagnose Dementia, and whether the pharmaceutical companies are already offering prescription drugs to ‘treat’ it?
2) Do any of the senior executives and officials involved have any links to funding from Pharmaceutical companies?
3) This decision as badly flawed, especially given the expectation that there WILL BE more people with dementia, and could this be because Geoengineering Aerosol Spraying in our atmosphere (aka Chemtrails), has been bombarding the population with Barium and Aluminium amongst other things?
 
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As a patient of 66 years old, who is as old as our NHS itself, I have seen the best and the worst of that service, and the damage that greedy politicians and individuals in various governments have done to it.
It seems to have become Big Pharma and Private Healthcare’s puppet, and totally overrun by unchecked immigration and health tourism.
 
It has been degraded from once excellent and world beating, to impoverished mediocrity, while the loyal and dedicated front line staff struggle to give good service to patients, with managers, executives, and CEOs paying themselves unacceptable salaries and perks in readiness for creeping privatisation of the service.
 
At one time I had a personal view that NICE stood for National Institute for Clinical Euthanasia, as the Liverpool Care Pathway and DNR was enthusiastically adopted on wards for the Elderly, without the public’s knowledge or consent.
In all probability because the elderly have had the affrontery to live too long, and shock horror actually draw the pensions they had paid for, on top of being considered past their usefulness to commerce, and therefore useless eaters.
 
The NHS under greedy ‘Common Purpose’ managers and executives has lacked Common Decency, Ethical Decisions, Care and Compassion, something the essence of the Hippocratic Oath, and our Royal Common Laws enshrined in the Christian Coronation Oath try to uphold.
 
Now the latest wheeze, possibly to make more money for Big Pharma, is to bribe GPs to hit targets in diagnosing Dementia, for which there is probably a harmful drug just waiting in the wings to prescribe, reducing our poor overstretched GPs to little more than drug pushers.
I can tell you now that there are some GPs in certain parts of this country, who will be rubbing their hands with glee, and worshipping Mammon at the prospect of inventing dementia patients just to claim the bribe, because they lack the honest and ethical standards of the majority of decent GPs around the country.
 
I therefore ask that you answer my questions on this issue, and think again about what you are proposing.
The money earmarked for this flawed project, must be ploughed into frontline help and service for those already experiencing dementia, not satisfying useless targets.
 
yours sincerely
Mrs Jane Birkby
15 DN20 0DF
 

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