Into 2016
Posted: Fri 1 January, 2016 Filed under: D4D™, Domestic 1 Comment »So here we are, another new year.
As usual, I’m not making any real resolutions – although I do have some plans and ideas, which I’ve been writing down and putting into lists over the last week or so, in order to get it all sorted in my head.
The main thing for me for this year is to continue with the progress that got made in 2015. That’s the main goal – to leave 2016 in a better state than I’ve come into it, and to keep building.
Hi Lyle,
Do You remember Your post in March 2008 when you wrote ;
“Way back at the end of January 2005, I wrote a post about the (at that time) recently announced withdrawal of the painkiller Coproxamol. Weirdly, it since appears to have become almost a noticeboard for people with views about the withdrawal and (over the last month or so) a discussion about where to keep on getting it, the best places, and customs/excise issues with importing it from other countries.
In fact, at the time of writing it’s got 122 comments on it – making it by far the most popular post on D4D™.
Please Make This Subject Popular Again In 2016 By Publishing My Latest Petition, please help before the NHS finally obliterates the Co-proxamol “Named Patient” category altogether.
This is a copy of my Email I have sent to many organisations including meconnect@meassociation.org.uk help@fibromyalgiasoutheast.org.uk enquiries@nras.org.uk
helplines@arthritiscare.org.uk and Julia George who presented the exceptional programme for BBC Breakfast. julia@bbc.co.uk
As all of the previous petitions have failed I’m hoping to have a more positive response as there is now positive proof that deaths with all of the most popular replacement drugs have risen drastically since the withdrawal of the licence for Co-proxamol.
Please help before the NHS finally obliterates the Co-proxamol “Named Patient” category altogether. This is certainly their intention according to this bulletin they have issued.
This PrescQIPP DROP-List Bulletin was first issued to all prescribers in May 2013 and again in July 2015.
https://www.prescqipp.info/resources/finish/214-co-proxamol/658-bulletin-42-co-proxamol
Further evidence is shown in the attached PDF file “Policy Statement; Prescribing of Co-Proxamol is not supported” issued by Mid-Essex Clinical Commissioning Group which was issued in 2015.
With deaths involving tramadol continuing to rise year on year (240 deaths in 2014) I think the original suicide argument is now suspect and certainly questionable. Deaths from tramadol overdose have soared from just one in 1996 to 240 in 2014.
Deaths from codeine have risen from 60 in 2007 to 136 in 2014
Deaths from paracetamol & codeine compound formulation have risen from 49 in 2007 to 136 in 2014
Deaths from other specified opiate have risen from 66 in 2007 to 129 in 2014
In 2004 the Committee on Safety of Medicines conducted a “RIGOROUS REVIEW” of the available evidence on the risks and benefits of co-proxamol.”
This “so called rigorous review” consisted of Approximately 365 Requests for Information Being Sent out with a Response of Just 52 Replies. (A little over 14%)
Lies, damned lies, and statistics! As a result of the information quoted by MHRA back in 2004 – 2005. Tens of thousands of patients had been left in complete despair and in some cases
un-medicated pain due to the inferior medications offered to them.
The demands from PATIENTS, MP’S, and DOCTORS pleading with the MHRA to review the Co-proxamol ban with many demanding the repair of the defective MHRA “Named Patient” system fell on deaf ears.
DID THE CSM / MHRA “RIGOROUS REVIEW” DELIBERATELY MISLEAD PARLIAMENT REGARDING THIS MATTER? OR DID PARLIAMENT SINCERELY BELIEVE THAT THE 14% RESPONSE TO THE CSM REQUEST FOR INFORMATION WAS SUFFICIENT AND THEIR FINDINGS TO BE A “GENUINE AND RIGOROUS REVIEW” OF ALL THE AVAILABLE EVIDENCE ON THE RISKS AND BENEFITS OF COPROXAMOL?
THE LICENCE FOR CO-PROXAMOL SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN REMOVED!
I would appreciate you promoting my petition at;
https://www.change.org/p/rt-hon-jeremy-hunt-mp-demand-that-co-proxamol-is-relicensed
I would be grateful if you could forward this email to your many contacts in order to gain a successful petition
Yours sincerely
James Kelly