Author of the bishops’ report says LCP is not ‘inherently unethical’ but has been ‘badly implemented’
Topic: Liverpool Care Pathway
Bishop Egan welcomes Government move on Liverpool Care Pathway
Posted on Friday, 5 April 2013
Bishop says he is ‘delighted’ that cash incentives for NHS Trusts taking up the LCP now seem likely to be abolished
Nine out of 10 unborn children found to have Down’s syndrome are aborted. The price of this tragedy is high
Posted on Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Now the Liverpool Care Pathway, it seems, is being applied to babies with severe long-term disabilities
Government opens inquiry into Liverpool Care Pathway
Posted on Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Archbishop Smith had asked the Department of Health to launch an inquiry in September
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?
Posted on Friday, 9 November 2012
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
My brother’s happy death was the kind we all wish for
Posted on Monday, 5 November 2012
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
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
Do not despair, Julian Barnes, ageing matures the soul
We must not dreary pessimism drive us towards acceptance of suicide