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How should dying patients be treated?

End-of-life care: How should patients be treated?

End-of-life care in England must be tailored to the needs of dying patients rather than a "tick-box approach", the health watchdog NICE says.
Patients must be treated with respect and compassion, it said, and doctors should avoid making "snap decisions" about whether someone was dying.
The guidance is designed to address misuse of the previous system, the Liverpool Care Pathway.
Charities welcomed the new guidelines - but warned more investment was needed.
Joanna Gosling, presenting for the Victoria Derbyshire programme, discussed the guidelines with Professor Sam Ahmedzai, a professor of palliative medicine at the University of Sheffield, and chair of the committee which has developed the new approach, Susan Dewar, who's worked as a community nurse for more than 50 years, Denise Charlesworth-Smith, whose father died while on a end-of-life pathway and was denied fluids which the family did not know about, Kayleigh Hollobone, whose mother was put on a care pathway but was taken off it after Kayleigh complained and Dr Rob George who is the President for the Association for Palliative Medicine.

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