Annals of Government Medicine

November 14, 2011 — John Hinderaker

Annals of Government Medicine

Featured image A new edict has been handed down in England’s National Health Service: hospitals must no longer deliberately postpone surgery in hopes that the patient will either die or pay to have the operation performed privately: NHS managers have been banned from rationing treatments while patients wait to die or go private after Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, admitted that some hospitals were delaying operations. It comes after a damning report »
November 9, 2011 — John Hinderaker

Annals of Government Medicine

Featured image We noted here that under socialized medicine in the U.K., the death panel process has been delegated to hospital staff who enter “do not resuscitate” orders on patients’ charts without the knowledge of the patient or his or her relatives. Now, another horror story about “The National Hell Service:” A Mum died gasping for breath in hospital after she was WRONGLY given a “do not resuscitate” tag. The frantic husband »
October 15, 2011 — John Hinderaker

Annals of Government Medicine

Featured image An investigation reveals that under socialized medicine in the U.K., the death panel process has been delegated to hospital staff who designate patients “do not resuscitate” without the knowledge of the patient or his family and occasionally through clerical error: Elderly patients are being condemned to an early death by hospitals making secret use of “do not resuscitate” orders, an investigation has found. The orders – which record an advance »
July 28, 2011 — John Hinderaker

Annals of Government Medicine

Featured image One of the problems with socialized medicine is that it pretty much destroys–or entirely destroys, depending on a given country’s laws–the private provision of medical services. Thus, when the socialized system begins to crash and burn, as it inevitably will, citizens have nowhere else to turn. That is what is happening in Great Britain: the government has begun a more severe regimen of rationing of surgeries: Hip replacements, cataract surgery »
February 27, 2011 — Scott Johnson

Annals of government medicine

Today’s installment of our long-running series comes courtesy of London’s Telegraph: “Cancer sufferers refused life-extending drugs despite Government pledge.” The Telegraph reports: An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has uncovered more than 80 cases in which desperately sick NHS patients have been refused the cancer drugs their doctor sought, in the four months since a £200 million fund was introduced to stop health authorities rationing treatments. The fund was a »