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Palliative Care Congress

Events Reports
20 March, 2014

Those who care for dying people every day of their working lives tell us: we don’t back assisted suicide – we can do better for our patients

Doctors & prosecution guidelines

Articles
11 March, 2014

BMA past president tells the House of Lords that claims that prosecutorial guidelines ‘inhibit’ doctors are ‘unfounded’

Lords consider DPP’s guidelines

Articles
11 March, 2014

Four years after the then Director of Public Prosecutions published his criteria for prosecuting in instances of assisted suicide, Peers last week locked horns over the merits and demerits of the guidelines.

Call the Midwife

Articles
11 March, 2014

The BBC’s popular Sunday night drama offers an alternative view of ‘a good death’

RCGP rejects assisted suicide

Press Releases
21 February, 2014

The RCGP maintains its strong opposition to any change in the law to allow ‘assisted dying’ following ‘one of the most comprehensive consultations the College has ever undertaken’

Council of Europe

Articles
6 February, 2014

Child euthanasia in Belgium has been denounced at the Council’s Parliamentary Assembly – ‘the democratic conscience of Greater Europe’

Saying ‘no’ to Margo

Articles
3 February, 2014

A catalogue of reasons why Margo MacDonald’s Assisted Suicide Bill should be rejected

‘New Poll Shows Drop In Support For Euthanasia’

Press Releases
30 January, 2014

A new poll published in Scotland in relation to Margo MacDonald MSP’s Assisted Suicide Bill points to a downward shift in support for such measures.

Shaping ‘Care of Dying People’

Submissions
29 January, 2014

CNK has responded to a key consultation on future goals for the care of dying people

Werther & Papageno on the cobbles

Articles
22 January, 2014

How did Coronation Street do?

Five myths about death and dying

Articles
16 January, 2014

Assisted suicide on Coronation Street

‘The only humane approach’

Personal stories
19 December, 2013

Kathy Gyngell describes how redoubled care efforts overcame her terminally ill husband’s despair – and afforded him a peaceful death

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