Tag: Palliative Care

Health professionals and organisations misusing LCP should be reported to regulators, says CQC

'regulators need to be informed if any person believes the implementation of the LCP to be inappropriate'

Ministers and MPs back Liverpool Care Pathway investigation

The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), a framework used to manage the care of patients for whom death is imminent, has now come to the attention of government ministers and MPs.

Consensus Statement on Liverpool Care Pathway

A consensus statement has been signed on the Liverpool Care Pathway.

Euthanasia to be debated during ethics agenda at BMA annual meeting

The British Medical Association (BMA) holds its annual representative meeting at the end of the month. Euthanasia will be debated.

Liverpool Care Pathway

Terminally ill patients are receiving good care, says National Audit

Doctors’ leaders condemn suicide bid

Doctors' leaders condemn suicide bid

Influence GMC Consultation on end of life care

Influencing this consultation is a way of making your voice heard on issues which will affect us all at some stage of our lives...

Care in the Community

Much of our emphasis on care at Care Not Killing is on the care that terminally or otherwise seriously ill people need

What it means to be old – and why we should take notice

A picture of growing old in modern Britain that ought to make us, as a nation and as individuals, feel shame

Spiritual care or militant secularism in hospitals

“Hospitals have never needed God more. A&E departments are a war zone. There could not be a worse time to get rid of their chaplains”.

Elderly care homes in crisis

New report suggests Britain is failing many vulnerable elderly people