3.8 "All patients upon their admission were written up (by the doctor) who authorised the use of a syringe driver if appropriate. This enabled any member of nursing staff to set up a syringe driver for a patient without any further reference to the doctor"https://www.gosportpanel.independent.gov.uk/panel-report/part-one/chapter-3/page-2/ …
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>>"I have never known of a case where a staff member did not obtain permission to use a syringe driver from senior staff." I haven't found a single mention of the patient's consent to treatment in all this yet. Just talk of getting 'consent' from a senior nurse. Is this for real?
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>>Oh, ok... here it is. Looks like they probably *didn't* have the patient's consent to kill him then? There's a surprise. Jees... "Knowing [the patient] as I did I am confident that he to would not have allowed the introduction of a syringe driver had he known of the outcome."
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>>"[The patient] subsequently remained unconscious until his death. He lasted some while. Whilst accepting that I have no medical qualification I am concerned that he was certainly not in imminent fear of death when he allowed the syringe driver to be introduced." This is unreal
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