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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.

CNK welcomes Court ruling rejecting judicial review appeal by assisted suicide campaigner

Press Releases
30 January, 2020

Care Not Killing welcomes today’s rejection of an unnecessary legal challenge to the UK’s assisted suicide laws by the assisted suicide campaigner Phil Newby.

Isle of Man to consider assisted suicide

Articles
15 January, 2020

A proposal to be considered on 21 January asks lawmakers to introduce legislation for ‘voluntary assisted dying’

Call for assisted suicide law review criticised

Press Releases
13 January, 2020

‘Evidence from around the world shows that removing these protections puts vulnerable people at risk of abuse and of coming under pressure, real or perceived, to end their lives prematurely.’

General Election 2019

Articles
10 December, 2019

With another bid to legalise assisted suicide expected in the next Parliament, it is imperative that voters and candidates address protection for vulnerable people at the end of life

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