Care Minister announces creation of more personal end-of-life care

The government has ordered hospitals to carry out immediate reviews of their end-of-late practices and announced the phasing out of the Liverpool Care Pathway. In announcing the plans, Care Services Minister Norman Lamb called for “a more personal approach” to end-of-life care after the recent scandal at Mid Staffordshire Hospital in which reports claimed that some patients on the so-called ‘pathway to death’ were denied basic rights. The Pathway will be replaced by individual end-of-life care plans within a year after an independent concluded it was being “misused” in many areas. Thoughtful & careful end-of-life careLamb added:”We hope the actions