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:
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.