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Falconer Bill: prognoses

Articles
29 January, 2015

Baroness Finlay led debate on the difficulty of assessing terminally ill patients and determining a prognosis – an issue critical to the viability of Lord Falconer’s bill which was receiving its second day of committee consideration

Falconer Bill: ‘assisted dying’?

Articles
29 January, 2015

The term ‘assisted dying’ has long been controversial, but supporters of Lord Falconer proved utterly unwilling to accept the simplest demands of the English language on his bill’s second day in committee when Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve proposed an alternative phrase: assisted suicide

Hospice care: into the abyss

Medical Opinion
26 January, 2015

Dr Jeff Stephenson, Medical Director of St Luke’s Hospice in Plymouth, describes the challenges palliative care might be facing in 20 years time – in a Britain where assisted suicide is legal.

General Election countdown

Resources
26 January, 2015

Where do the people seeking your vote in May stand on improving palliative care and legalising assisted suicide?

APM members’ strong ‘no’ to Lords

Medical Opinion
17 January, 2015

82% of Association for Palliative Medicine members oppose a change in the law on assisted suicide, with 72% saying passage of a Falconer-type bill would have an adverse effect on the delivery of palliative care

Welsh Assembly rejects Falconer

Articles
19 December, 2014

A motion in support of the Falconer Bill has been rejected by AMs, whose constituents would be covered by the Bill

Doctors reject assisted suicide

Medical Opinion
10 December, 2014

The Royal College of Physicians rejects assisted suicide following a survey of all fellows and members, maintaining the healthcare profession’s clear commitment not to give up on the patients

Palliative care: longer life?

Medical Opinion
3 December, 2014

Despite death being our only shared destiny, there is an amazing amount of misinformation about what medicine can achieve at the end of life

More Questions Than Answers

Articles
24 November, 2014

Analysts in the House of Lords dig beneath recently published figures concerning suicide among terminally ill people in England

Falconer Bill in committee

Articles
17 November, 2014

Where did the first day of consideration in committee actually get us?

Poll exposes ‘chilling’ attitude

Public opinion
7 November, 2014

Peers urged to ditch dangerous assisted suicide bill, as new polling shows that one in ten Britons would favour rewarding older people for ending their lives.

Key Bill guides published

Resources
7 November, 2014

Read briefings circulated among members of the House of Lords ahead of the Falconer Bill’s committee stage: on the Bill itself and on ten reasons not to follow Oregon’s example.

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