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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts) Mon Jul 15, 2013, 07:18 AM Jul 2013

End of life care to be overhauled

There needs to be an overhaul in the way dying patients are cared for in England, ministers have conceded.

The government has ordered hospitals to carry out immediate reviews of their practices and announced the Liverpool Care Pathway will be phased out.

It comes after an independent report concluded the pathway, which can involve the withdrawal of food and treatment, was being "misused".

It will be replaced by individual end of life care plans within a year.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23315865

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1. Care failings probed at 'worst' hospitals

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Tue Jul 16, 2013, 05:32 AM

Jul 2013

Failings in care and problems with staffing at the 14 hospital trusts with the worst death rates in England are to be exposed.

The investigation was launched earlier this year following the public inquiry into the Stafford Hospital scandal.

The probe has been led by NHS England's medical director Prof Sir Bruce Keogh.

It has focused on whether the figures indicate sustained failings in the quality of care and treatment at the trusts.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23315869

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