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RCGP goes neutral despite falling support for law change

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

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

Times ‘fails to accurately reflect’ Congress vote

Our Chief Executive writes in The Times, in the wake of a troubling Anaesthetists Association Congress in Edinburgh.

CNK-ODOC suicide prevention submission 2022

We considered, in particular, the arguments and evidence of the debate on assisted suicide in responding to the Department of Health consultation.

1,700 medics urge rejection of assisted suicide

A press release from Our Duty of Care issued ahead of the Assisted Dying Bill’s second reading in the House of Lords.

CNK CEO on BMA neutrality, and the need for more research

BMA opts for Neutrality on Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia as Leading ‘Choice’ Advocate admits we need more research on Painful Deaths

BMA goes neutral after knife-edge vote

The doctors’ union’s Annual Representative Meeting considered its stance on assisted suicide and euthanasia in light of a pre-pandemic membership survey

Press Release: disappointment at ‘divisive’ BMA vote

Care Not Killing disappointed at “divisive” BMA vote, which shows divide between doctors on assisted suicide and euthanasia

Doctors at coalface scrutinise simplistic claims

More than 50 'doctors who care daily for dying patients' argue in The Sunday Times that 'any marginal interest' BMA members might have in legalising assisted suicide and/or euthanasia is 'not matched by enthusiasm for the practice.'

Not ‘just another customer-supplier relationship’

A palliative care physician considers medical opinion on assisted suicide and answers the question: ‘Where is the patient in all this?’

BMA ‘assisted dying’ poll takeaways

Beneath the headline grabbing top-line numbers lies a complex picture of medical opinion on the question of whether they should be empowered to end patients’ lives

BMA poll shows mixed views on Assisted Dying

Care Not Killing notes the results of the British Medical Association poll showing mixed views on Assisted Dying

Pushback against ‘shocking’ blanket DNACPRs

Senior healthcare professionals and rights campaigners denounce inappropriate and even 'discriminatory' misapplications of an ordinarily valuable clinical tool, as the country grapples with Covid-19.

‘RCP clarifies that it does not support a change in the law’

CNK welcomes an 'extensive and unusually frank statement from the UK's oldest medical organisation' which 'rightly puts a sword to the lie that the RCP supports a change in the law - it does not.'

RCGP consultation: drilling down

Further details of the Royal College of General Practitioners' consultation of members in 2019 show that those whose votes kept the College opposed did so because of the risk to vulnerable patients.

RCGP reaffirms assisted suicide opposition

Care Not Killing welcomes the RCGP Council's decision, following 'the largest consultation on an issue of public policy that the College has conducted.'

Doctors write in The Times, 6 February 2020

Dozens of doctors, many leaders in their respective fields, co-sign a letter to The Times expressing the hope that 'assisted dying will not become a medical intervention in the UK', published on the day the BMA's consultation on the matter commences.
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