article_snippet: The discredited Liverpool Care Pathway is still being used in some hospitals despite having been scrapped, a Commons report will reveal.
article_snippet: The Royal College of Nursing said The Royal College of Nursing members had ‘not seen a significant difference’ in the way care is delivered in England since the pathway was withdrawn last year.
article_snippet: The Liverpool Care Pathway is already being investigated after Angela Johnson, the daughter of 85-year-old Alice Johnson who died on the LCP shortly before the LCP abolition, made an almost identical complaint weeks earlier.
article_snippet: Warrington General Hospital was meant to be using the pathway from summer last year.
article_snippet: But in written evidence to the Commons inquiry, the charity Macmillan Cancer Support said: ‘Some areas have worked well to develop [new] guidance ... other areas, however, are still using the Liverpool Care Pathway by a different name.
article_snippet: Labour MP Rosie Cooper said that if the Liverpool Care Pathway was still in use, how can we know whether the ‘abuses, misunderstandings and lack of education isn’t going on under our noses now?