By Wesley J. Smith When the NHS [the British National Health Service] adopted the “Liverpool Care Pathway” to guarantee quality palliative care, it led to bureaucratic checklist medicine, back door euthanasia, and the terminal sedation dehydration deaths of...
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Liverpool care pathway – next steps now clearer with setting up of new leadership alliance
By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and is CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) was developed by specialists...
Tragedy of the of Liverpool Care Pathway
By Wesley J. Smith These are the consequence of centralizing healthcare under bureaucratic control. Deprofessionalization. Medicine practiced by the numbers. The most weak and vulnerable victimized. The tragedy of the Liverpool Care Pathway tells the awful tale....
Liverpool Care Pathway Death Investigation
By Wesley J. Smith I have written often about the Liverpool Care Pathway(LCP) and how it has led to backdoor euthanasia. Now, an official inquiry is being made into one death that may be LCP related. From the Telegraph story: “Jean Tulloch, 83, died in March last year...
NHS Back Door Euthanasia Payments to End
By Wesley J. Smith Centralized control of health care is catastrophic. The classic example is the Liverpool Care Pathway, originally created to ensure that NHS patients receive good pain control, under centralized control it often became a form of connect-the-dots...
Dehydrating Disabled Babies in UK Hospitals
By Wesley Smith The Liverpool Care Pathway [LCP] has become a checklist for killing. This is what happens when a country allows bureaucrats to control healthcare. (Yes, I am issuing an unsubtle warning about Obamacare.) The Pathway was designed by health bureaucrats...
Investigation into Liverpool Care Pathway is most welcome
By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. The investigation into the Liverpool Care Pathway announced by...
Liverpool Care Pathway Used as Euthanasia
By Wesley J. Smith The Liverpool Care Pathway, which was supposed to be restricted to sedating patients whose pain could not otherwise be controlled, has mutated into a form of euthanasia. Not only are UK hospitals paid to to put patients “on the Pathway,” but it has...