Now sick babies go on death pathway: Doctor's haunting testimony reveals how children are put on end-of-life plan

Practice of withdrawing food and fluid by tube being used on young patients

Doctor admits starving and dehydrating ten babies to death in neonatal unit

Liverpool Care Pathway subject of independent inquiry ordered by ministers

Investigation, including child patients, will look at whether cash payments to hospitals to hit death pathway targets have influenced doctors' decisions

By SUE REID and SIMON CALDWELL
PUBLISHED: 18:03 EST, 28 November 2012 | UPDATED: 19:54 EST, 28 November 2012
DailyMail

Sick children are being discharged from NHS hospitals to die at home or in hospices on controversial ‘death pathways’.

Until now, end of life regime the Liverpool Care Pathway was thought to have involved only elderly and terminally-ill adults.

But the Mail can reveal the practice of withdrawing food and fluid by tube is being used on young patients as well as severely disabled newborn babies.

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