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Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Families were not told their loved ones were on the 'pathway' to death By MATT CHORLEY, MAILONLINE POLITICAL EDITOR and DANIEL MARTIN FOR THE DAILY MAIL PUBLISHED: 07:02 EST, 15 July 2013 | UPDATED: 09:06 EST, 15 July 2013 153 View comments Like Follow Daily Mail @DailyMail Nurses shouted at relatives who tried to give their dying loves ones a sip of water, an inquiry into the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway revealed today. Follow +1 Daily Mail Daily Mail Ministers moved to scrap the end of life plan after a damning inquiry found it was being used as an excuse for poor care. Dying patients were placed on the LCP without their families knowing, left for weeks and in some FEMAIL TODAY cases months, and denied water despite the pleading of loved ones to let them have a drink. Make-up free Kim open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? 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Sponsored Labour's NHS denial SPONSORED The best machine: Expert's movie car chase scenes That's one way to verdict of ministers... of all time divert attention: Rihanna goes braless in a see- through top after video catches her preparing 'Among the worst stories were of people on the Liverpool Care Pathway for days going into weeks suspicious substance without communication or review or discussion. ‘And also desperate stories of desperate people who are longing for a drink of water who were, through misunderstanding of the Liverpool Care Pathway and poor care, denied a drink. Emily Ratajkowski covers her sizeable ‘Stories of nurses shouting at families who give a patient a drink were frequent as were stories of chest with her hands... people who were just left to get on with it with no regular observations or review.’ after posing naked wearing a rabbit's head The LCP - which recommends that in some HISTORY OF HARROWING STORIES: and heels on Instagram circumstances doctors withdraw treatment, food Bizarre photoshoot and water from sedated patients in their final HOW THE LCP WAS SCRAPPED days - has come under intense scrutiny. Sports Illustrated Reports have suggested that doctors have been model Erin Heatherton enjoys a relaxing day out establishing ‘death lists’ of patients to be put on as she hits the beach in the pathway but some hospitals have been Sydney in a tiny floral accused of using it to cut costs and save bed bikini spaces. Worked on her tan The review recommended scrapping the LCP after finding doctors used it ‘as an excuse for EXCLUSIVE: 'Leo was poor-quality care’. wonderful but I've got a Hundreds of thousands of people have been boyfriend I'm more at They concluded that there were ‘too many cases put on the Liverpool Care Pathway since it was one with now': Model Erin Heatherton opens where the LCP was simply being used as a 'tick developed in the late 1990s. box' exercise.’ up about dating Developed by the Royal Liverpool University DiCaprio Health minister Norman Lamb announced that Hospital and the Marie Curie Hospice in the LCP would be phased out over the next 6-12 Liverpool to care for terminally ill cancer Julianne Hough enjoys months after learning of 'too many examples of patients, it was later expanded to help anyone a passionate kiss with poor practice and poor quality care, with families who was dying. boyfriend Brooks Laich and carers not being properly involved and after he surprises her supported'. It was supposed to alert clinicians to not just a with flowers at the dying patient’s physical problems but their airport In a statement to MPs he added: 'Instead, an emotional, social and spiritual needs in their Dancer is loved up individual approach to end of life care for each final hours and days. patient will be introduced, with a personalised care plan backed up by condition-specific good But it has faced a storm of criticism, with relatives not told that loved ones had been open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com practice guidance and a named senior clinician relatives not told that loved ones had been responsible for its implementation. placed on the LCP, and the guidance misinterpreted by some hospitals so that 'People who use health and care services have patients were even denied water. the right to be treated with respect, dignity and compassion by staff with the skills and time to In November last year ministers ordered an care for them properly. independent review into its use after it was revealed up to 60,000 patients die on the LCP 'We all want our own and our loved ones’ final each year without giving their consent. days and hours to be pain-free and dignified, with individual needs prioritised and respected, A third of families are also kept in the dark and with families and carers fully involved.' when doctors withdraw lifesaving treatment from loved ones. The review found examples of patients being so heavily drugged that they could ‘never The pathway involves withdrawal of lifesaving communicate again’, meaning their grief-stricken treatment, with the sick sedated and usually families never got to say goodbye. denied nutrition and fluids. Death typically What a difference a takes place within 29 hours. glam squad makes! And some claimed their relatives had been given Heidi Klum, 41, shares a ‘chemical cosh’ cocktail of drugs, with the Records from 178 hospitals also show that dramatic before and express intent of hastening their deaths from thousands of people on the pathway are left to after shots of her die in pain because nurses do not do enough makeover for a photo dehydration. shoot to keep them comfortable while drugs are Every year, 130,000 patients have been placed administered. on the pathway, which usually involves heavy Cheeky Miley Cyrus sedation with morphine or similar drugs. Concerns have been raised that clinical shows off a little too judgments are being skewed by incentives for much derriere in TINY The Mail has been leading a campaign against hospitals to use the pathway. hotpants as she stocks it, highlighting examples of doctors putting up on supplies in LA patients on the pathway without asking for Health trusts are thought to have been Singer is certainly not consent. rewarded with an extra £30million for putting scared to show it off more patients on the LCP. We also revealed how some hospitals were being paid six-figure ‘bribes’ to meet targets Now the government is to phase out the LCP Jennifer Garner skips and scrap the incentive payments to down the road with her about the numbers of patients on the LCP – lookalike son Samuel as leading to fears that doctors were put under encourage trusts to end patients' lives. they head to breakfast pressure to use the pathway. together The 42-year-old is Following our revelations, Mr Lamb asked Baroness Neuberger to carry out a review into the married to Ben Affleck controversial pathway – in the face of opposition from the medical establishment.