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Harvie Bill: health implications

Articles
6 February, 2015

‘It gives far too much power and not nearly enough accountability to doctors who are not really in a position to make the judgment that the bill requires’, CNK’s Campaign Director tells MSPs

Isle of Man’s assisted suicide No

Articles
6 February, 2015

Members of the House of Keys, the lower house of the Tynwald (the Manx Parliament), this week declined by 17 votes to 5 to allow a bill for assisted suicide.

Falconer Bill: disabled people

Articles
29 January, 2015

The contributions of Baroness Campbell to the Falconer Bill’s second day of committee consideration once again drew the greatest attention. Read her two key speeches, advocating for the rights of disabled people

Falconer Bill: doctors

Articles
29 January, 2015

Lord Carlile’s amendment to require a pre-existing doctor-patient relationship on the Falconer Bill’s second day of committee consideration sparked key points of debate

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

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