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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published a draft guideline to support the NHS in providing high quality & compassionate care for people who are dying. It also provides guidance about the management of some common symptoms that may be experienced at the end of life, and places the individual and their loved ones at the heart of decisions about their care. The draft NICE guideline, which has been published for consultation, follows the abolition of the Liverpool Care Pathway, a protocol for looking after people at the end of their life. This was phased out last year after a government-commissioned review found serious failings in how the pathway was being implemented. The NICE guideline begins to provide some guidance around clinical care in the last days of life in its place. The consultation for the draft NICE guideline will remain open until Wednesday 9 September 2015. Comments will then be reviewed before the final guideline is published for NHS use. Only organisations & groups with a registered interest in the guideline will be able to participate in the consultation, but they can register to become a stakeholder at any time during the development of the guideline. NICE expects to publish its final guideline in December 2015. |
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