Tricare for Kids Coalition’s Post

As always a great summary of Medical Aid in Dying by Medical Assisted Suicide in US (they do not have Euthanasia as an option) The key point presented by Tadeus Pope we can discuss in Latam is: "Although medical aid in dying continues to be used by less than 1% of dying patients, it is becoming a more integral part of end-of-life care." https://lnkd.in/ecv_rvn4

We need to learn from these tragedies (Maeve is not the first) & take action. #ME is a complex array of debilitating symptoms & medical professionals need to understand it so they can help their patients. That is why i signed the open letter to Wes Streeting & wrote to my local MP calling for action to adopt the recommendations in the #LongCOVID & #ME Policy Brief 👇 https://lnkd.in/ed9XyASg Calling for a national strategy for #ME & investment in biomedical research #ThereForME

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Today, the Coroners Court of Victoria published its findings and recommendations from the inquest into the death of 19 month-old Noah Andrew Souvatzis. Noah died from acute meningitis secondary to bacterial infection, following discharge from a regional public hospital and subsequent presentations to other public health services. Prevention opportunities in Noah's case are not the first in recent paediatric coronial decisions to identify the need to ensure sufficient staffing and resourcing of public hospitals and health services. In light of the timing of Noah's death, it was inevitable that the COVID-19 pandemic was pointed to as a factor affecting resourcing and the standard of care. It was identified as such in the findings. That noted, with topical concerns regarding hospital funding, the resource demands on Ambulance Victoria and ongoing challenges in attracting specialists to rural and regional services; the prevention opportunities in coronial decisions from COVID-era deaths should not be dismissed by reference to the pandemic. A further comment of enduring relevance is related to the importance of parent and carer escalation and input in paediatric care. Parental and carer input is a source of information which can contexualise a child's presentation and supplement observations to inform patient assessment and management. The Coroners Court performs vital functions in identifying causes of preventable deaths and fires, making preventative recommendations and documenting measures already implemented. Many of us who act in coronial proceedings find satisfaction not only in protecting an individual party's interests, but also supporting this important and unique role of Coroners. #coroner #inquest #prevention #lawyer PCL Lawyers https://lnkd.in/gJtUjsT6

Paediatric Palliative Care: The Forces Impeding Quality https://ow.ly/CRjg50Rya9T

In 2015, the UK #government set an ambition to halve rates of stillbirths, neonatal deaths, and maternal deaths in England by 2030. In May 2021 our Medical Negligence team conducted #research seeking to establish as far as possible, whether practices and procedures about Maternal Request Caesarean (MRCS) have changed in NHS UK Trusts since 2018. Our research in 2021 showed that only 6% of UK hospital trusts were offering MRCS. Now three years on, our Medical Negligence team has conducted more research to follow up on UK hospital trust figures to track progress on the ambitious target set by the government in 2015. Read our report and findings on the number of #stillbirths, neonatal deaths, and coroner referrals here: https://buff.ly/3WQlO58 #NHS #Coroner #Inquest #FreedomofInformation #birth

In 2015, the UK #government set an ambition to halve rates of stillbirths, neonatal deaths, and maternal deaths in England by 2030. In May 2021 our Medical Negligence team conducted #research seeking to establish as far as possible, whether practices and procedures about Maternal Request Caesarean (MRCS) have changed in NHS UK Trusts since 2018. Our research in 2021 showed that only 6% of UK hospital trusts were offering MRCS. Now three years on, our Medical Negligence team has conducted more research to follow up on UK hospital trust figures to track progress on the ambitious target set by the government in 2015. Read our report and findings on the number of #stillbirths, neonatal deaths, and coroner referrals here: https://buff.ly/3WQlO58 #NHS #Coroner #Inquest #FreedomofInformation #birth

Recent publication in The BMJ #ChoosingWisely series provides practical guidance on Reducing unnecessary investigations in paediatric seizures in the emergency department: https://loom.ly/03wa534

The inferiority of the American Illness Profit System becomes clearer day-by-day, here is just the latest in an endless sequence of reports showing a factual basis proving its inferiority. Yet nothing happens in Congress to correct any of this because the Congress members are so corrupt, and in the pocket of the corporations that control health care in this country. The only thing that is going to change this is how you vote in what may be the last real election in which you will ever be able to vote.

The Coroner of the #MaeveInquest has issued a REGULATION 28: REPORT TO PREVENT FUTURE DEATHS sent to inter alia the representative of #UKgov & #NHSEngland. The link is to the three-page document, which is succinct and clear. #SevereME #pwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MECFS #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #CFS #PostViralFatigueSyndrome #PVFS #PostViralDisorder #ELCI https://lnkd.in/esSe9FG3