NHS hospitals are using end-of-life care to help elderly patients to die because they are difficult to look after and take up valuable beds, a top doctor has warned. Professor Patrick Pullicino has claimed that doctors are using the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) designed to help make people/s final days more comfortable as an equivalent to euthanasia. Almost a third of patients — 130,000 — who die in hospital or under NHS care a year are on the LCP.
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“Elderly patients ‘helped to die to free up beds’, warns doctor”
June 20, 2012
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