Tag: Palliative Care

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.
Press release: Care Not Killing and Our Duty of Care herald new bill, as consultation opens.
The Government has agreed to amend the Health and Care Bill to make palliative care commissioning a legal requirement across England
A palliative care physician considers medical opinion on assisted suicide and answers the question: ‘Where is the patient in all this?’
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
Disability rights advocate Baroness Grey-Thompson, geriatrician Professor Des O'Neill and palliative care consultant Dr Sinéad Donnelly discuss euthanasia and assisted suicide.
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.'
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.
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
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
Research indicates 'a lack of understanding that death can be 'gentle, peaceful and pain-free''
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
Care Not Killing responds to dangerous new guidance that weakens safeguards for brain-damaged patients, including those with stroke and dementia
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
Supreme Court to rule on whether doctors can remove food and fluids from brain-damaged patients without going to court
'To grant a few the right to euthanasia means that the rights of many vulnerable others are compromised'
A survey conducted to mark Hospice Care Week uncovers a range of attitudes and levels of awareness
Four months after assisted suicide became legal in California, patients are being told that treatment will no longer be funded - but assisted suicide will -as happened in Oregon