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Tag: Palliative Care

Fix palliative care, before introducing assisted suicide or euthanasia, say majority of Britons

Deepening crisis overshadows Hospice Care Week

ACT NOW: calls for evidence on assisted suicide bill and the state of palliative care

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Two major calls for evidence have been issued at Westminster: one on the state of palliative care, and the other on the substance of Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill.

Holyrood right-to-palliative-care bill welcomed

Press release: Care Not Killing and Our Duty of Care herald new bill, as consultation opens.

Government agrees palliative care right

The Government has agreed to amend the Health and Care Bill to make palliative care commissioning a legal requirement across England

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?’

Widening Canada’s euthanasia law set to save $149m

As Canada considers how to enact court-ordered extension of its euthanasia law beyond those whose deaths are reasonably foreseeable, analysts estimate increased deaths will see significant savings

Webinar: disability, medicine and euthanasia

Disability rights advocate Baroness Grey-Thompson, geriatrician Professor Des O'Neill and palliative care consultant Dr Sinéad Donnelly discuss euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Activists push ‘all-or-nothing’ advance decisions

Assisted suicide advocates who've said their approach would 'save money in the long-term' are promoting 'all-or-nothing' advance decisions in the context of coronavirus, with little encouragement 'to consider the likely benefits and burdens of different treatments.'

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.

Staffing main barrier to good EOLC

Almost two thirds of UK nurses responding to a major survey say staffing shortages are the main barrier to providing good care to dying patients

World-leading EOLC under strain

In the country where the modern hospice movement began and where palliative care is concerned world-leading, services which alleviate suffering and safeguard dignity face challenges as never before

Many in the dark on end of life

Research indicates 'a lack of understanding that death can be 'gentle, peaceful and pain-free''

Fertile soil for assisted suicide

Successive pieces of research demonstrate 'a lack of understanding that death can be 'gentle, peaceful and pain-free'' - but also that providers of good end of life care face mounting challenges

Press Release: BMA CANH guidance

Care Not Killing responds to dangerous new guidance that weakens safeguards for brain-damaged patients, including those with stroke and dementia

Forced to choose

A new report from Quebec picks up a recurring theme of patients being driven towards assisted suicide and euthanasia - now 'healthcare' - by a failure to provide wanted care and treatment

Courts consider food & fluids

Supreme Court to rule on whether doctors can remove food and fluids from brain-damaged patients without going to court

Oncologist on Victoria bill

'To grant a few the right to euthanasia means that the rights of many vulnerable others are compromised'
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