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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Thank heavens the Liverpool Care Pathway has been abandoned.

All change for end of life hospital care

Things have improved in the past two years - since the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway was abolished.

Dignity at last

The case has echoes of the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) controversy.

'He is being left to die' SON CLAIMS 86-YEAR-OLD DAD WAS LEFT STARVING

Te Ara Whakapiri replaces the Liverpool Care Pathway of the Dying Patient, and has been developed in conjunction with the health sector following both sector and public consultation.

New Zealand : Improved palliative care guidance

In the United Kingdom (UK), Larkin said, there had been a lot of criticism about nurses losing their sense of compassion, particularly after the release of the 2009 Francis report into the running of the Mid Staffordshire National Health Service Trust and the review of the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP).

Palliative care--a key objective in health

The Liverpool Care Pathway, which was withdrawn last year, saw elderly and other vulnerable patients denied food and fluids, often without their knowledge or consent, or that of their relatives.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

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

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 (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

The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) was only recently introduced at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and Calderdale Royal Hospital, Halifax.