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RCGP to poll members on assisted suicide

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

Statement on Noa Pothoven

A statement following clarification of a Dutch news report

Staffing main barrier to good EOLC

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

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

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

Lords question rebuffed

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

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

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

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

Fertile soil for assisted suicide

Successive pieces of research demonstrate ‘a lack of understanding that death can be ‘gentle, peaceful and pain-free” – but also that providers of good end of life care face mounting challenges

Charity Commission to quiz RCP

Charities regulator set to ‘investigate’ doctors’ group over ‘sham’ assisted suicide poll

Release: Lamb renews legal bid

Care Not Killing is disappointed at the latest and unnecessary legal challenge to the Suicide Act by the campaigner Paul Lamb

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