What does CP stand for?

Mr Jones was treated at a hospice which was central to the Liverpool Care Pathway where dying patients have their life support taken away, although the hospice claims it wasn't applied in his case.

The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) was created in the late 1990s by a handful of staff in Liverpool, who wanted to ease the suffering of people in the last weeks of life.

Last week The Examiner reported that the Kirkwood Hospice has defended a care system for dying patients called the Liverpool Care Pathway System.

The NHS Quality Improvement Scotland's (QIS) Pathway for Normal Maternity Care project was commissioned in 2007 by the Scottish Government Health Directorates' Keeping Childbirth Natural and Dynamic (KCND) programme to develop and implement a Scotland-wide pregnancy, intrapartum and postnatal care pathway.

With lead times from referral to treatment reducing, and the increase in shared care across multidisciplinary patient care pathways, the need for Health Records Departments across the country to respond is vital.

NHS Ayrshire and Arran executive medical director Dr Bob Masterton said: "NHS Ayrshire and Arran are working closely with North Ayrshire Council, Yorkhill and Mrs McGregor and have agreed a care pathway to deliver Alex back home as soon as clinically appropriate.

Cancellations do not affect clinically urgent, day case or children's surgery (under 16s) or patients on cancer care pathways.

The evidence is presented through a number of topics reflecting the care pathway and has been categorized into secondary publications (Cochrane systematic reviews, systematic reviews, reviews and meta-analyses), interventional studies (randomized control trials and clinical control trials) and observational studies (cohorts, case control trials, population based cross-sectional studies, comparative studies, qualitative surveys and case reports or series).