Almost two thirds of NHS trusts using the Liverpool Care Pathway have received payouts totalling millions of pounds for hitting targets related to its use, research for The Daily Telegraph shows.
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October 31st, 2012
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October 31st, 2012
Care given to a terminally ill woman at a Derby hospital has been compared to "torture" by her family.
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October 31st, 2012
Dr Peter Saunders from the Care Not Killing Alliance says Liverpool Care Pathway is a "very good tool" but there has to be full transparency about its use.
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October 31st, 2012
TV star Rustie Lee has accused a Birmingham hospital putting her mother on a Liverpool Care Pathway-style plan - after wrongly warning her family she was dying.
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October 31st, 2012
A group of pro-life physicians and other professionals, as well as the Catholic archbishop of Southwark, and innumerable patient’s families, are now being joined by the UK Health Secretary in calling for a thorough, independent review of the reported abuses of the Liverpool Care Pathway, a controversial end-of-life medical care protocol.
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October 31st, 2012
It is crunch time for clinical common sense in the care of the elderly and the seriously ill.
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October 31st, 2012
Five years after the state of Oregon legalized doctor-assisted suicide, the Center for Ethics in Health Care at Oregon Health & Science University conducted research on how the law was being utilized.
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October 31st, 2012
Little more than half of British children still live with both their birth parents by the time they are 15, according to shocking statistics on the breakdown of family life.
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October 31st, 2012
The homosexual push for “equal marriage,” otherwise known as genderless marriage, can only lead to a ban on heterosexual rights.
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October 31st, 2012
The homosexual push for “equal marriage,” otherwise known as genderless marriage, can only lead to a ban on heterosexual rights.