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BMA poll shows mixed views on Assisted Dying

Press Releases
8 October, 2020

Care Not Killing notes the results of the British Medical Association poll showing mixed views on Assisted Dying

Euthanasia bill tabled in Ireland

Articles
21 September, 2020

Private Member’s Bill would allow assisted suicide or euthanasia for anyone with a ‘terminal illness’, without specifying a required prognosis, and requires doctors to facilitate requests.

Experts outline assisted suicide risks to MPs

Events Reports
21 September, 2020

Dutch academic and former euthanasia regulator Theo Boer and American lawyer and author Wesley Smith addressed Parliamentarians on World Suicide Prevention Day.

Webinar: disability, medicine and euthanasia

Resources
14 September, 2020

Disability rights advocate Baroness Grey-Thompson, geriatrician Professor Des O’Neill and palliative care consultant Dr Sinéad Donnelly discuss euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Nursing Institute report prompts DNR inquiry call

Press Releases
28 August, 2020

Care Not Killing calls for inquiry into scandal of DNR notices being “pushed” on care home residents at height of COVID-19 pandemic

CNK condemns Dutch elderly euthanasia bill

Press Releases
28 July, 2020

Care Not Killing has strongly condemned a Dutch End of Life Bill that would extend euthanasia to anyone over the age of 75, even if they have no illness or disability.

‘It is good to be told: “do it, just do it.”’

Articles
21 July, 2020

Reaction to the first public comments of a Dutch doctor cleared of murder after sedating, restraining and administering euthanasia to a patient with dementia.

Justice Secretary confirms: no Government review

Articles
11 May, 2020

Lord Chancellor Robert Buckland renews commitment given to Care Not Killing, reiterating that the law on assisted suicide is a matter for Parliament, not Government policy or the courts.

Activists push ‘all-or-nothing’ advance decisions

Articles
11 May, 2020

Assisted suicide advocates who’ve said their approach would ‘save money in the long-term’ are promoting ‘all-or-nothing’ advance decisions in the context of coronavirus, with little encouragement ‘to consider the likely benefits and burdens of different treatments.’

Pushback against ‘shocking’ blanket DNACPRs

Articles
11 May, 2020

Senior healthcare professionals and rights campaigners denounce inappropriate and even ‘discriminatory’ misapplications of an ordinarily valuable clinical tool, as the country grapples with Covid-19.

Denying conscience – the Canadian experiment

Articles
31 March, 2020

Recent reports from Canada reveal a worrying trend of doctors being pressurised and bullied into participating in Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD, the Canadian euthanasia programme).

‘RCP clarifies that it does not support a change in the law’

Press Releases
31 March, 2020

CNK welcomes an ‘extensive and unusually frank statement from the UK’s oldest medical organisation’ which ‘rightly puts a sword to the lie that the RCP supports a change in the law – it does not.’

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