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Leading doctors have claimed NHS patients are being routinely placed on the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway by out-of-hours medics who are ?strangers? who have never been involved in their care.
The claims suggest patients are often left to die on the end-of-life regime, which involves being deprived of drugs, food and water, after doctors make decisions based on ?bedside evidence? alone and without fully understanding the patients? condition or medical history.
The Liverpool Care Pathway is designed to ease suffering in the final hours or days of those suffering a terminal illness.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287145/Patients-death-pathway-doctors-idea-history.html
The claims suggest patients are often left to die on the end-of-life regime, which involves being deprived of drugs, food and water, after doctors make decisions based on ?bedside evidence? alone and without fully understanding the patients? condition or medical history.
The Liverpool Care Pathway is designed to ease suffering in the final hours or days of those suffering a terminal illness.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287145/Patients-death-pathway-doctors-idea-history.html