Ministry for Fair Play
New plans may make dying easier...
The government has today unveiled new plans that will give the dying amongst us more choices about how we go. From now on, if the £286m three-year project proves to be successful, dying Britons will be able to cash their chips in 'familiar surroundings' (such as down their local Tesco or branch of Currys) instead of having to fade away in the faceless confines of some insentient hospital room.
Health secretary Alan Johnson and his care service minister friend Ivan Lewis will today announce the details of the project, designed to support those who wish to die at home and their carers. The ten year strategy will also provide improved training for staff and community nurses with an end result of 24 hour round-the-clock pain management care for the nearly departed in their homes.
Speaking of the initiative Alan Johnson said: "People coming to the end of their lives and their loved ones deserve high-quality, compassionate and dignified care, on their own terms. This strategy will help make that happen."
Largely modelled on the Delivering Choice programme of the Marie Curie Cancer Care charity, the scheme will aim to increase the number of people who are able to die in their homes instead of a hospital bed. Currently only one in five (18%) of people die in their own homes.
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"The ten year strategy will also provide ....."
Another conjuring trick.
Every bleedin' day we have another "initiative" or "strategy" or "flagship", sometimes a "beacon", but never are they described as what they really are.....all smoke and mirrors.
It is intended to keep the punters eye off the ball, but the whole damned charade is becoming farcical in the extreme. ...and tiresome.