Not Very NICE
Dr Jack King
In the UK, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, known as NICE, is the official advisory body to the health care world. And a NICE ruling is utterly crucial.
NICE classified people in nine categories. If you are in category 1 then you are very fit. If you are in category 9 then you are terminally ill (though, when it suits them NHS staff sometimes devise another category of ‘terminally, terminally ill’).
On 29th April 2020, NICE issued amended advice to NHS staff about its resuscitation guidelines, saying that doctors should ‘sensitively discuss a possible DNAR with all adults with CFs of 5 or more’. This was issued in response to the coronavirus hoax. Doctors and nurses were instructed that they should review critical care treatment when a patient ‘is no longer considered able to achieve desired overall goals’.
So, what does this mean?
And what is a CF? What does a CF of 5 mean?
Well, the letters CF mean clinical frailty and there are several stages.
A CF of 5 means that a patient is mildly frail and may need help with heavy housework, shopping and preparing meals.
A CF of 6 means moderately frail – people who need help with bathing.
A CF of 7 means severely frail – people who are completely dependent for personal care.
And so on.
I could manage a bit of light dusting, I suppose, but more than that would require more effort than I have available to spend on such matters. I would have great difficulty in preparing a meal and I hate going to the shops. So, presumably, I’d get dumped into the CF5 category. And, in that case, there is no hope for me, and the NHS would recommend that I be denied antibiotics, painkillers or surgery if I fell down and broke an arm.
Meanwhile, if you live in Britain and you think that you could be rated C5 or worse, it might be a good idea to ask your doctor if you’ve been put on the ‘suitable for dying’ list.
NOTE
The above essay is taken from `They Want to Kill You’ by Jack King. You can buy a copy on Amazon. I suggest you buy copies and give them to friends and relatives. I’ve distributed around 100 copies already.
Copyright Jack King July 2024
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