When ‘End of Life Care’ Goes Wrong – Printed Report
28 April 2023|
UK Nationwide|
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From over 600 complaints that we know about – the tip of a very large iceberg – this Report details 16 medically analysed and validated accounts of such failure, provided in their own words by families left stunned at the inhumane treatment suffered by their relations. The individualised ‘care package’, recommended by NICE in the wake of the LCP, has all too often become a pathway to death – imposed for what sometimes started out as seemingly trivial conditions. One patient, for example, was admitted for treatment for constipation. Others, otherwise healthy, underwent knee replacement surgery or elective eye surgery.