Maeve Boothby O'Neill - articles about her life, death and inquest

Trish said:
I'm sorry you and your family suffered that treatment, Arnie Pye.
According to this article the Liverpool Care Pathway was abolished in 2013, largely it seems because they realised depriving dying people of fluids was cruel.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/jul/15/liverpool-care-pathway-independent-review
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I don’t have a medical or eugenicist education. So I innately know this. For all my faults I am not evil I don’t think, so I wouldn’t wish to dehydrate anyone to death.

So it is a real shame that medical professionals needed to keep on and do this for a long time. Then had to have a review to tell them it’s best not to torture their dying patients.

You can see why disabled people might have a difficult time persuading medical professionals of this ideological position to keep us alive to treat to alleviate our suffering and help us thrive.

Maybe this examination of feeding and non feeding in healthcare leads to the heart and stomach of the non treatment paradigm. Maybe this is where we should focus our attention from now onwards.
 
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Yes, me too. I got in touch with the Coroner's Office and was told that the prior Teams link should be used to gain access.
No other information such as time was offered. Previously we were asked to be online for 9.50am for a 10am start, with phone and camera off.
If anyone gets any information about time, please can you post it.
 
MittEremltage said:
But this tweet from inquest says that that ”Copy of findings will be provided but some types will be corrected over the weekend to anyone that wants it.”

https://twitter.com/user/status/1821939506158747751
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There was a press release regarding the report, but the report itself is only shown to the parties- not “given” to them. Coroners reports aren’t public. That tweet is just someone paraphrasing what the coroner said.
 
Paragraph 7 of Schedule 5, Coroners and Justice Act 2009, provides coroners with the duty to make reports to a person, organisation, local authority or government department or agency where the coroner believes that action should be taken to prevent future deaths.
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Regulations 28 and 29, Coroners (Investigations) Regulations 2013 (external link, opens in a new tab) set out the procedures that apply to reports and responses. The Chief Coroner has also issued guidance on the process which you can access here: REPORTS – ACTION TO PREVENT FUTURE DEATHS
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https://www.judiciary.uk/courts-and-tribunals/coroners-courts/reports-to-prevent-future-deaths/

Issued reports are public and viewable here:

https://www.judiciary.uk/?s=&pfd_report_type=&post_type=pfd&order=relevance
 
Amw66 said:
@Valerie Eliot Smith
Is there a simple explanation for this ?

https://twitter.com/user/status/1839198895051620398



#MaeveInquest 10:00 Friday 27 September 2024 coroner@devon.gov.uk for the live link.
This is the 13th hearing. 1 witness who has submitted 3 separate statements. Why was he not called BEFORE HMAC concluded? Why has she not published half the facts heard? Whose court is it?
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Thanks for the mention @Amw66

I assume the first question refers to Dr Anthony Hemsley who is giving evidence tomorrow at the hearing when the Coroner will consider whether or not to write a Section 28 Prevention of Future Deaths Report.

Dr Hemsley was appointed as Medical Director to the RDUH Trust in June 2021, over half way through the period covered by the inquest. As such, he would have had little/no direct involvement in Maeve's case. The handling of Maeve's case was addressed during the main inquest hearing by the clinicians who were directly involved in her care.

I haven't seen Dr Hemsley's statements. However, I imagine that, given his position and the timing of his appointment, the relevance of his evidence goes to how the Trust has addressed the issues arising from Maeve's case since her death rather than adding anything further to what happened between January and October 2021. I assume that this is why the Coroner is hearing from him tomorrow and why he was not called during the earlier proceedings.

The other two questions in that X post are presumably rhetorical so any answer would be purely speculative in the absence of any further information.
 
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