This is Best Practice, evidence-based record keeping. This is Best
Practice, evidence-based record keeping. This is Best Practice, evidence-based
record keeping. This is Best Practice, evidence-based record keeping. This is
Best Practice, evidence-based record keeping...
Say it enough times...
This is GLA Conservatives –
This report, Unheard Voices: The Liverpool Care Pathway, exposes a lack of clear, reliable and publically accessible information over how the Liverpool Care Pathway (an end of life care pathway) is applied in hospitals.
Data from 21 London health trusts uncovered by Andrew Boff, Leader of the GLA Conservatives, shows:
38% of trusts (8) could not say how many patients were on the LCP
81% of trusts (17) could not provide the number of patients who were
removed from the LCP and/or survived
81% of trusts (17) could not give the longest and shortest periods
that patients were on the LCP
38% of trusts (8) could not provide any of the requested information
on patients on the pathway
Andrew Boff, Leader of the GLA Conservatives, Londonwide Assembly Member and author of the report said:
"It is a scandal that we could not find basic information on the some of the most vulnerable people, those over 65 years of age, on the Liverpool Care Pathway. We are talking about straightforward figures that should be readily available in the public domain - the number of deaths on the LCP, the length of time that patients are cared for on it, and the number of patients that are removed from it. Trusts should be required to record this information regularly, clearly and concisely, and the clinical commissioning groups should make sure that they do this.
The report recommends that independent advocates be made standardly available to patients without friends or family to represent them when they are in hospital, and when decisions are being made about whether they should be placed on the LCP.
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| - Greater London Authority Conservatives |
The issues we have found are as follows:
• A lack of clear, reliable and publicly accessible information as to how the LCP is applied in hospitals.
• Recording of the checks and reassessments that are made on LCP patients does not always take place.
• There needs to be better support for people with no family or friends to look after their interests.
• Improvements should be made to the system of consent.
I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that.
What did you say...?
Recording of
the checks and reassessments that are made on LCP patients does not always take
place.
I beg your pardon...?
Recording of the checks and reassessments that are made on LCP patients does not always take place.
Do the checks, in fact, take place?
All the recommendations in the report are chanted by the Tweets abroad the net like the Gospel according to St. John (aka Chairman Ellershaw) as already set in stone, like the Ten Commandments borne by Moses down from Mount Sinai.
But what this means is they are killing people!
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