Father's 'final days of agony'

A daughter has described how her father spent his final days in agony at a Sheffield hospital after being denied adequate pain relief. Thomas Milner was 76 and being treated for end-stage leukaemia and was not given enough top-up morphine to relieve his symptoms. Mrs. Brooks said initial hospital treatment for her father was good but he later suffered unnecessarily from not having enough medication. She said he was given 10 milligrams of morphine over 55 hours, which she said an independent doctor has since told her is a "pitiful" amount for a patient with a terminal illness. Sheffield Telegraph