Liverpool care pathway

An integrated care pathway recommended as a best practice model by the UK Department of Health, which has been used at the bedside of the dying in the last hours and days of life. The LCP transfers the best quality for care of the dying from the hospice movement into other clinical settings—hospitals, care homes, in the individual’s own home and community—so that wherever the person is dying there can be an equitable model of care.

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There are no standardised guidelines in New Zealand for ACP so, in essence, there is no evidence-based document for those working with older adults and end-of-life care, as there was with the Liverpool Care Pathway.

NZ research needed on advance care planning: international research says advance care planning improves end-of-life care, but more needs to be known about how this relatively new concept is working in New Zealand

The changes were made by PHE and NHS Improving Quality following feedback from implementers, national consultation, national review and the phasing out of the Liverpool Care Pathway.

United Kingdom : Improving palliative care data collection and end of life care co-ordination

The Liverpool Care Pathway, which was withdrawn last year, saw elderly and other vulnerable patients denied food and fluids, often without their knowledge or consent, or that of their relatives.

Food and fluids the basics for patients

A PLAY about the experiences of families who lost loved ones on the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway will be staged tonight.

PLAY FOCUS ON NHS CARE PLAN

The Liverpool Care Pathway programme - which has already been axed in England - is being phased out over the next 12 months.

Pathway death plan faces axe

Peter Tulloch, 56, said ex-nurse Jean Tulloch, 83, was given less than a day's calories in three and a half weeks after she was put on the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway without his permission.

'DOCS STARVED MUM TO DEATH... IT WAS MURDER' Son wants medics to face criminal inquiry

This is health fascism, it is eugenics and we have also had many unnecessary premature deaths because of the Liverpool Care Pathway which was euthanasia taken to ridiculous lengths.

Questioning ethics of NHS; Views of the North

THE government is expected to announce a new coalition on end-of-life care in response to the scrapping of the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway.

End-of-life care plans

An independent review has recommended the Liverpool Care Pathway, a national policy which currently sets out how all hospitals should treat people at the end of their lives, should be phased out over the next year, to be replaced by personalised end of life care plans.

Health boss pledges review

The Liverpool Care Pathway was only recently introduced at Calderdale Royal Hospital, Halifax.

HOSPITALS URGED TO END PATHWAY SCHEME; Review of controversial care for dying

The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) - which recommends that in some circumstances doctors withdraw treatment, food and water from sedated patients in their final hours or days - will be axed in coming months and will be replaced with a personalised end-of-life care plan for each individual patient.

Shocked and upset at end of life scheme

David Jones, director of the Oxford-based Anscombe Bioethics Centre, said the principles that underpinned the Liverpool Care Pathway "are fully in accordance with Catholic moral theology"