It was a significant contrast to the sad, hasty and solitary deaths so many people are subjected to, not least on the Liverpool Care Pathway
Topic: end of life care
State rejects archbishop’s call for review of care pathway
Posted on Friday, 19 October 2012
Department of Health says it will not launch an inquiry into the Liverpool Care Pathway despite plea from archbishop
Sydney bishop says at Oxford University: let’s not kill off elderly to cut costs
Posted on Friday, 19 October 2012
In a lecture Bishop Anthony Fisher says cost-cutting may lead to a compromise on basic moral principles
Ethicist says keeping people alive wastes money
Posted on Thursday, 19 July 2012
A professor has suggested in the BMJ that hydrating and feeding dementia patients ‘skews’ resources
Jeremy Hunt orders an inquiry into the Liverpool Care Pathway, and says patients and relatives must be consulted. But will the doctors pay any attention?
There is too much evidence that the LCP is being used by some doctors as euthanasia by the back door, and that they are wilfully failing to consult: the Health Secretary will be ignored