Report shows lack of patient involvement in key decisions about their end of life care
An audit on the provision of care for terminally ill people in hospitals has found that experience varies significantly across hospitals in England.
An audit on the provision of care for terminally ill people in hospitals has found that experience varies significantly across hospitals in England.
Compassion in Dying has welcomed the panel of independent experts announced by Baroness Neuberger this weekend to run a review into the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP).
Following an independent review into the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), facilitated by the Department of Health, a number of recommendations have been made, including the phasing out of the LCP in favour of individual end of life care plans.
End-of-Life rights and choices have been headline news this week. And given that 82% of people in the UK have strong views about how they wish to be treated at the end of life, it is important to note that people facing the end of their lives do have rights under the current law.
Divided in Dying, a new report from charity Compassion in Dying, finds that almost half of those who have lost someone close to them through a short or long illness, feel their loved one died badly (45%).
Yesterday the older people on our Steering Group shared with us their thoughts on end-of-life care, and the feelings of the local community in light of the recent and current media interest in end of life care. The discussions highlighted that this is a pivotal time for end of life care in Britain.
In summer 2013 the independent review of the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) published its report ‘More Care Less Pathway’. They recommended that the Liverpool Care Pathway should be phased out by July 2014 and replaced with a new system which ensured every patient should receive individual end-of-life care plans.
The Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying People (LACDP) has today published its system-wide response to the independent Neuberger review of the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP).
