A named GP
should take overall responsibility for a patient who is dying in the
community, the team behind the Liverpool Care Pathway review
has recommended. They say that it is “particularly good practice” to
give dying patients a telephone number on which they can reach their GP
if there is an out-of-hours emergency.
The review authors also
said that the patient’s GP should be involved in discussing their care
plan if they have no family or carers.
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