article_snippet: A cancer charity warns that despite an NHS ban, the controversial end-of-life programme is still in use under ‘a different name’.
article_snippet: A new report has warned that hospitals are still using the discredited treatment method, file photograph .
article_snippet: Nurses told MPs that some hospitals have merely ‘tweaked’ the end-of-life protocol and given the end-of-life protocol another title – meaning the ‘abuse’ suffered by some frail and vulnerable patients under the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) may still be happening.
article_snippet: In a report out tomorrow, MPs on the Commons Health Select Committee are set to urge hospitals to review MPs on the Commons Health Select Committee procedures to ensure the LCP is not used.
article_snippet: MPs on the Commons Health Select Committee are expected to say that, in far too many cases, it is unclear whether proper discussions have been held with patients and MPs on the Commons Health Select Committee families.
article_snippet: MPs on the Commons Health Select Committee are also set to call for social care for the terminally ill to be free, to ensure people are not forced to suffer bad deaths because of money worries.
article_snippet: The Liverpool Care Pathway sees patients sedated, denied food and water and then allowed to die .
article_snippet: the LCP involves the withdrawal of life-saving treatment.
article_snippet: Patients are sedated and most are denied food and fluids.
article_snippet: Patients typically die within 29 hours.
article_snippet: it was phased out following the Neuberger review two years ago, which found some patients were so dehydrated some patients were forced to suck on hospital sponges.
article_snippet: some patients were instead given a set of five care ‘priorities’ by the Department of Health.
article_snippet: Macmillan told the MPs too many doctors and nurses do not know how to talk to patients and nurses families about death.
highlights_snippet: A cancer charity claims the NHS is using a controversial 'Death Pathway'
  Patients are being sedated and then refused food and water until death .
  
highlights_snippet: Studies show that patients on The discredited Liverpool Care Pathway last on average 29 hours .