Cancer expert who treated Mo Mowlam brands Liverpool Care Pathway 'the most corrupt practice in British medicine'
- I wouldn't be treated in a hospital here, says Professor Mark Glaser
- Senior oncologist accuses NHS managers to use the Liverpool Care Pathway in order to clear beds and reach their targets
By STEVE DOUGHTY and SIMON CALDWELL
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A senior cancer specialist today condemned the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway as a corrupt and scandalous system used to free hospital beds of the old and sick.
Professor Mark Glaser said the pathway – in use across the NHS as a way to ease the suffering of the dying – is employed by Health Service managers to clear bed space and to achieve targets that bring more money to their hospitals.
The professor, who treated former Labour Cabinet minister Mo Mowlam during her last illness, said practices in British hospitals are ‘morally bad medicine’ and that he would personally ‘never be treated in a hospital in England’.
Accusing: Oncologist Professor Mark Glaser says NHS managers use the Care Pathway to clear bed space and to achieve targets
‘I would go to America because I don’t trust anybody,’ he said.
He added that he has removed ‘dozens’ of his own patients from the Liverpool Care Pathway.
The intervention by Professor Glaser, consultant oncologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, comes at a time of growing concern over the Liverpool Care Pathway.
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