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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.’

RCGP consultation: drilling down

Articles
25 March, 2020

Further details of the Royal College of General Practitioners’ consultation of members in 2019 show that those whose votes kept the College opposed did so because of the risk to vulnerable patients.

Oregon 2019: ‘burden’ fears hit new high

Articles
16 March, 2020

The American state’s assisted suicide law, which demands prognoses of six months or less, sees patients live for more than four years between request and death, with ‘terminal diseases’ including ‘complications from a fall’

Response to report on assisted suicide, NHS savings and organ donation report

Press Releases
13 March, 2020

Report claiming assisted suicide can save the NHS money and increase organ donation, must be rejected

RCGP reaffirms assisted suicide opposition

Press Releases
21 February, 2020

Care Not Killing welcomes the RCGP Council’s decision, following ‘the largest consultation on an issue of public policy that the College has conducted.’

Doctors write in The Times, 6 February 2020

Letters
9 February, 2020

Dozens of doctors, many leaders in their respective fields, co-sign a letter to The Times expressing the hope that ‘assisted dying will not become a medical intervention in the UK’, published on the day the BMA’s consultation on the matter commences.

Sunday Times, 9 February 2020

Letters
9 February, 2020

As the BMA consultation gets under way, and following efforts in Parliament to push for a weakening of the law, CNK’s CEO, Gordon Macdonald, writes in the Sunday Times.

BMA consults on euthanasia & assisted suicide

Articles
6 February, 2020

The BMA defines ‘physician-assisted dying’ as covering both assisted suicide and euthanasia. What would neutrality really mean, and why should members remain opposed?

Care Not Killing responds to latest call for assisted suicide and euthanasia inquiry

Press Releases
30 January, 2020

Care Not Killing has responded to the latest call for an inquiry into assisted suicide and euthanasia made in today’s Sunday Express by saying it not necessary or wanted.

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