WHAT WAS THE LCP
If an elderly member of your family or maybe a close friend has a terminal illness, or is taken into hospital because they are unwell, a favourite seems to be a urinary tract infection; you might be told that they are very close to death. You may hear (if they decide to talk to you) mention of the words palliative care, ‘palliative,’ simply means to ease pain usually through the use of drugs. It seems to be mainly used now when patients are at the end of their life or there are no options left to cure an illness.
However, it is possible that the patient is not dying but that they are seen as being a candidate for the LIVERPOOL CARE PATHWAY (LCP) because the hospital has decided that this is how some elderly people, (and in some cases not so elderly, so be careful) are to die. At the present time some 20,000 people with dementia have been placed on the LCP.
Planned Neglect
You should also be aware that doctors have been asked to identify the one in every hundred of their patients who are likely, only likely, since it’s impossible to really say, who are going to die over the next 12 months. This fits in with the Gold Care Standard 2005 promoted by the Department of Health and set to save the government more than £1 billion a year. We believe that patients singled out for this are put on a list that finds its way to hospitals and is used to single out people for so called ‘end of life care.’WHAT THE PAPERS SAY Put 1 in 100 patients on death list, GPs told: Frailest to be asked to choose ‘end of life’ care. Steve Doughty Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2218790/Put-1-100-patients-death-list-GPs-told-Frailest-asked-choose-end-life-care.html
Of the 450,000 people who die in Britain each year under NHS care around 29 per cent – 130,000 are patients who were put on the LCP
WHAT they won't tell you
Article (Hospital ‘death pathway’ bribes will be scrapped: Victory for Mail as ministers end payments) MAIL ONLINE 3 APRIL 2013. By Steve Doughty. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2303136/Hospital-death-pathway-bribes-scrapped-Victory-Mail-ministers-end-payments.htmlLiberal Democrat Health minister, Norman Lamb’s response to being caught paying for LCP.“Cash bribes to hospital to put patients on to the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway will be ended, families have been told.This disclosure means that the NHS payments – which amount to at least £30 million – are likely to be stopped this year.”For example, the hospital trust in Blackpool was last year paid £450,000 in return for ensuring 35 per cent of patients who die are placed on the LCP.”Relatives and interested parties are in agreement that the ‘payments won’t stop they will just appear under another name or in a different pot of money.
