Hospitals will no longer be able to profit simply by putting dying patients on the Liverpool Care Pathway. NHS trusts have been receiving six-figure sums for using the controversial end-of-life regime. But care minister Norman Lamb said these ‘bribes’ would have to stop unless it was shown suffering had been reduced.Great moments in socialist medicine.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Hospitals stripped of cash bribes for ‘death pathway’ in shake-up of controversial end-of-life regime
The Daily Mail reports: