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‘For me personally, I am just so grateful that there wasn’t a change in the law’

Personal stories
23 July, 2019

CNK Board member Nola Leach speaks on Radio 4 about her husband’s death after three years living with ‘brutal’ Alzheimer’s

Outgoing Justice Secretary’s attempt to launch a review of the law on physician-assisted suicide is thwarted

Articles
23 July, 2019

Days before the administration he serves in comes to an end, pro-assisted suicide Justice Secretary David Gauke makes a ‘call for evidence’ concerning a possible change in the law

BMA ARM vote heralds members’ poll

Articles
15 July, 2019

Representative body calls on the BMA to carry out a poll of its members’ without any change to the BMA’s opposition to assisted suicide

RCGP to poll members on assisted suicide

Articles
15 July, 2019

Family doctors’ Royal College to join the RCP in polling members in 2019

Statement on Noa Pothoven

Media centre
7 June, 2019

A statement following clarification of a Dutch news report

Staffing main barrier to good EOLC

Articles
5 June, 2019

Almost two thirds of UK nurses responding to a major survey say staffing shortages are the main barrier to providing good care to dying patients

World-leading EOLC under strain

Articles
28 May, 2019

In the country where the modern hospice movement began and where palliative care is concerned world-leading, services which alleviate suffering and safeguard dignity face challenges as never before

Many in the dark on end of life

Articles
28 May, 2019

Research indicates ‘a lack of understanding that death can be ‘gentle, peaceful and pain-free”

Lords question rebuffed

Events Reports
28 May, 2019

Government minister tells assisted suicide campaigner the Government will not form policy on a matter of conscience, and reminds peers that the current law has been judged to strike a ‘fair balance’

Senior judge: law prevents abuse

Articles
22 May, 2019

Former Supreme Court justice Lord Sumption questions basis of claimed public support for assisted suicide and says current legal protections are necessary to guard against abuse

Times reports BBC bias complaint

Media centre
22 May, 2019

Care Not Killing complaint to BBC Director-General Lord Hall over the corporation’s coverage of assisted suicide receives coverage in national media

Kiwis speak: the threat to us

Personal stories
15 May, 2019

Watch ordinary New Zealanders explain why a proposed assisted suicide law would pose a direct threat to them and countless people like them

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