The<unk>  <unk>  was a<unk><unk>  in the United Kingdom (excluding Wales) covering palliative<unk>  options for patients in the final days or hours of life. It was developed to help doctors and nurses provide quality end-of-life<unk> , to transfer quality end-of-life<unk>  from the hospice to hospital setting. The<unk>  is no longer in routine use after public concerns regarding its nature. Alternative<unk> s are now in place to ensure patients are able to have dignity in their final hours of life. Hospitals were also provided cash incentives to achieve targets for the number of patients placed on the<unk> . The<unk> <unk><unk>  was developed by Royal<unk>  University Hospital and the Marie Curie Palliative<unk>  Institute in the late 1990s for the<unk>  of terminally ill cancer patients. The<unk>  was then extended to include all patients deemed<unk> . Its inflexible application by nursing staff of<unk>  Community Health NHS Trust was subject to scrutiny after the poor<unk>  delivered to a relative of Rosie Cooper MP. While the initial reception was positive, it was heavily criticised in the media in 2009 and 2012 following the practical application by<unk>  Community Health<unk>  staff. In July 2013, the Department of Health released a statement which stated the use of the<unk>  should be "phased out over the next 6-12 months and replaced with an individual approach to end of life<unk>  for each patient". However, The Daily Telegraph reported that the programme was just rebranded and that its supposed replacement would "perpetuate many of its worst practices, allowing patients to suffer days of dehydration, or to be sedated, leaving them unable to even ask for food or drink."
Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient
Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients
Enterprise master patient index
Commission for Certification in Geriatric Pharmacy
Classification of Pharmaco-Therapeutic Referrals
Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages
WHO Surgical Safety Checklist
NHS treatments blacklist