NHS Today: Push Medical Murder, Cut Palliative Care

Remember all that discussion of how socialized medicine would lead to “death panels?”

It turns out that this worry was far too optimistic about what the future would hold. 

In Great Britain the trajectory is far darker: as the country rushes to embrace medical murder without any checks on the ability of doctors to push and execute euthanasia, the National Health Service is looking to slash palliative care.

Palliative care now said to be “at risk” of cuts at NHS. Huge cuts to disability benefits incoming. Assisted death free on the NHS, also incoming. I hope MPs join the dots.https://t.co/5Fvsv3MnsH

— Kathleen Stock (@Docstockk) May 9, 2025

Call it the “torture” method of cutting medical costs. Die the most painful death possible, or we can kill you now and save you the pain and us the money of taking care of you at the end of life. 

The NHS in England is planning “previously unthinkable” cuts to try to balance the books, health bosses say.

Services including diabetes care for young people, rehab centres and talking therapies are in the firing line, according to NHS Providers, which represents health managers.

Staff, including doctors and nurses, also face the axe – and some NHS trusts are stopping overtime for doctors, putting the drive to cut the hospital waiting lists at risk.

NHS Providers said some of the savings were “eye-watering”, but the Department of Health and Social Care said NHS services should focus on cutting bureaucracy and driving up productivity.

The figures come after initial accounts for 2025-26 suggested frontline NHS organisations were going to go nearly £7bn over budget, an overspend nearly 5% above what they have been given by government, despite ministers increasing funding by £22bn over two years.

One chief executive of a large hospital trust said it was looking to shed 1,500 jobs, some 5% of its workforce, including doctors and nurses.

Meanwhile, a boss of a mental health trust told the BBC they had had to stop accepting referrals for adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), while waits for psychological therapies exceeded a year.

They said morale had “never been lower” among staff.

Other services at risk include stop smoking services and palliative care.

The closure of some maternity units is also being considered, although part of that is down to the falling birth rate which has seen a number of services being under-used.

No diabetes care for children? No rehab for people who need it? No palliative care. 

The plan seems to be to make people sicker younger and then kill them off when they get sick enough. 

It is shameful that the British Parliament voted to legalize euthanasia.

Life is a gift from our Creator. Any society that adopts a culture of death is in the process of crumbling.

House Republicans will promote and respect every life, no matter how old or sick. pic.twitter.com/3irg38jUrJ

— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) December 4, 2024

Americans who support socialized medicine really have no idea what it actually entails, believing the rainbows and unicorns version promoted by the socialists. In reality, it means long wait times, worse care, and the inevitable push to expand state-sponsored suicide. 

To give just one example, the UK has the lowest number of medical imaging machines per capita–MRIs, CT scans, and PET scans–in the Western world. The United States has about SIX times as many per capita, meaning diagnosing diseases and internal injuries is much more difficult in the UK. 

The UK Govt’s impact assessment on assisted suicide notes the cost-saving potential of the practice for the NHS, as widely reported. It also describes assisted death as a potential benefit for unpaid carers. Viewing the issue through this amoral prism won’t end well. pic.twitter.com/wHTrdhYIMk

— Jamie Gillies (@jmgillies) May 6, 2025

In other words, there are trade-offs that most Americans would recoil at. 

There are many problems with our own hybrid system of medical care–partly private and partly government-paid– but there is no doubt that Americans get a higher level of care than people in countries with socialized medicine, with generally higher survival rates for diseases that threaten people’s lives. On the other hand, Americans’ lifestyle choices are worse than Europeans’, leading to higher rates of heart disease. 

We can argue about how to improve America’s health care system, but replacing it with one that is designed to kill people when they are ill is not a path we should go down.