Tag: Leadbeater Bill

Thousands of doctors & nurses issue stark warning

Thousands of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals say: or the sake of us all, do not rush into hasty legislation but instead fund excellent palliative care

Press Release: Leadbeater Bill published

"This bill is being rushed with indecent haste and ignores the deep-seated problems in the UK’s broken and patchy palliative care system and the crisis in social care"

Palliative medicine holds firm on assisted suicide

The Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland leads members of the specialty in urging MPs not to support Kim Leadbeater MP’s assisted suicide bill

Leadbeater Bill: contact your MP

Use our email portal to contact your MP about Kim Leadbeater's "Terminally Ill Adults (End of life) Bill" Bill, ahead of second reading debate and vote on 29 November

Judges and lawyers question Bill “safeguards”

Legal scholars and senior jurists on why including the High Court isn’t the safeguard it sounds like, and why criteria are ripe for legal challenge and expansion

MP Kim Leadbeater to bring new assisted suicide bill

Gordon Macdonald urges MPs to consider new polling, which paints a far more complex picture of public opinion than usually claimed.