FOLLOWING the highly critical and devastating Liverpool Care Pathway (LPC) review and report by Baroness Neuberger and her committee LCP (and in my view a backdoor euthanasia programme) has been partly halted and completely stopped within 12 months.

LCP was about to be rolled out in every mainstream hospital, nursing and care home in the south, with the added intention of carrying out LCP procedures in patients private homes by LCP trained home help staff.

I feel the Government has neatly hoodwinked the public and sidestepped any responsibility, accountability or litigation for the 6,000,000 plus LCP deaths, and the disastrous LCP programme it was funding, training and promoting.

It now seems intent on blaming frontline clinical, nursing and care staff for failing to understand basic LCP policies and procedures.

Please be aware, LCP Mark 2 is now in the pipeline with a new name and disguise if they can get away with it.

I hope the Southampton hospitals trust management will come from behind their wall of silence on LCP and stop its practice immediately and to also protect the dedicated nursing staff from Government attack and any criminal litigation that maybe brought against them.

PETER JOHN SOWERBY, Southampton.