'More personal approach' call for dying patients
There needs to be an overhaul in the way dying patients are cared for in England, ministers have conceded.
The government has ordered hospitals to carry out immediate reviews of their practices and announced the Liverpool Care Pathway will be phased out.
It comes after an independent report concluded the pathway, which can involve the withdrawal of food and treatment, was being "misused".
Social Care Minister Norman Lamb told the BBC that every individual death is different so there has to be a more personal approach.
15 Jul 2013
- From the section Health