Elderly patients 'helped to die to free up beds', warns doctor - Telegraph: Professor Patrick Pullicino has claimed that doctors are using a care pathway designed to help make people's final days more comfortable as an equivalent to euthanasia. The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) is used in hospitals for patients who are terminally ill or are expected to die imminently. Under the pathway, doctors can withdraw treatment, food and water while patients are heavily sedated. Almost a third of patients - 130,000 - who die in hospital or under NHS care a year are on the LCP.
Christian Medical Comment: Is the NHS really killing 130,000 patients a year with the Liverpool Care Pathway?
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