article_snippet.sent: The extraordinary new guidance has been brought in despite the outcry over the use of 'do not resuscitate' orders under the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP).
article_snippet.sent: the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) was scrapped last year after the Mail revealed that doctors were placing 'DNR' notices on patients without doctors knowledge and depriving doctors of food and fluids.
article_snippet.sent: Professor Patrick Pullicino, who spearheaded the campaign against the LCP, said: 'What is most blatantly wrong is trying to get someone to agree to a 'do not resuscitate' order before order are even sick.
article_snippet.sent: The controversial Liverpool Care Pathway was phased out last year following harrowing reports that patients were being left so dehydrated patients were left to suck on wet sponges given by relatives because nurses had banned water.
article_snippet.sent: The controversial Liverpool Care Pathway was meant to be phased out last year following concerns that The controversial Liverpool Care Pathway was being abused by NHS staff.
article_snippet.sent: But recently, nurses have warned that The controversial Liverpool Care Pathway is still being used by hospitals under a different name.
article_snippet.sent: The LCP is a practice whereby foods and fluids are withdrawn from patients who are thought to be close to death – and patients who are thought to be close to death – are usually sedated.
article_snippet.sent: But it was meant to be banned last summer following a campaign by the Mail highlighting how the practice was being used by hospitals to free up bed space or claim controversial financial incentives.
article_snippet.sent: An inquiry in 2013 overseen by Baroness Julia Neuberger ordered the practice to be phased out by hospitals by the summer of 2014 – and said no patients should ever be denied food or fluid.
article_snippet.sent: But earlier this year nurses and cancer charities told MPs on the health select committee that the pathway was still being used by hospitals – although not by that name.
article_snippet.sent: One nurse warned that the 'abuse' suffered by patients under the LCP may still be happening in the NHS, a prospect