"Stories of nurses shouting at families who give a patient a drink were frequent" >An utterly indefensible disgrace > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2364029/How-Liverpool-Care-Pathway-used-excuse-appalling-care.html …
@garyk01 Basic behavioural modelling. Make something financially more worthwhile & you'll get more of it. Whether it's right for pt or not.
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@C7RKY in part of the article you linked, it states 'the government are to phase out the incentives paid to trusts to end patients lives' -
@garyk01 Yes, they've been paid £millions to ensure more people died on LCP up to now. Dangerous & highly inappropriate imho. -
@C7RKY maybe its me. an incentive to end a patients life is not the same as using a paricular model. it does not say payment to follow lcp. -
@garyk01 You're right, but a model which withholds life sustaining factors might have the same effect, if used inappropriately. Adds risk. -
@C7RKY the mail seems to say trusts have been paid to end lives. if it isnt that literal, it is poor journalism -
@garyk01 Perhaps so. The big question for me is who gets to decide who's 'dying'? LCP has its place, but not w/o consultation in my mind. -
@C7RKY developed to ensure a comfortable end for people in the last stages of terminal cancer, with patient and relatives as part of a team -
@garyk01 iI's the last part where the problem lays for me. Half of all LCP deaths w/o knowledge of pt/family from what I read? That's wrong. - 3 more replies
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