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With growing pluralism and multiculturalism in the UK, it has become controversial to reflect Britain's Christian heritage in healthcare. Here are some illustrations from the debate.

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Submission to the GMC guidance on Personal beliefs and medical practice - 17/4/2012

This submission is a response to the GMC consultation on the redraft of their guidance: Personal Beliefs and Medical Practice . Following this initial consultation process, the GMC will issue a formal consultation document on the redraft on 19 April, and plan to publish a revised version to coincide with the new Good Medical Practice towards the...
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GPs can pray with patients - as long as it's 'tactful' (28/7/2011)

New guidance for GPs on praying for patients has been released by the Medical Defence Union (MDU) - with backing from the General Medical Council (GMC) and one of the country's leading doctors. The guidance quotes an official from the GMC suggesting that a 'tactful' offer to pray for patients could be appropriate: 'Nothing in the GMC's guidance...
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spiritual care standards in the NHS - England and Northern Ireland lag behind (triple helix - spring 2010)

This January a consultation closed about standards and competencies for spiritual care delivery in the NHS in Wales. Final standards and guidelines should be out soon. Several Christian organisations (including Healthcare Christian Fellowship, Christian Nurses and Midwives (1) and Evangelical...
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spirituality, values and the NHS (CMF news - summer 2009)

1 July 2009 is a date we may come to see as seminal in the history of spiritual issues and healthcare. CMF Breakfast at the ARM - For the first time since 1892, when the Medical Prayer Union (one of the two organisations which merged in 1949 to form CMF) began these annual outreaches, the Breakfast...
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Spirituality in the NHS (triple helix - summer 2009)

Still belongs at the frontline of healthcare Review by Steve Fouch CMF Head of Allied Professions Ministries - The case of Caroline Petrie, a community nurse suspended for asking a patient if she wanted prayer, hit the headlines in January and created a national and international storm. (1) It...
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Prayer for patients

29/6/2009 In the latest eNewsletter, we drew to members' attention the BMA ARM agenda items on safeguarding spiritual care for patients. The story has attracted significant media coverage, mainly featuring CMF member Bernadette Birtwhistle who has been asked by the BMA to propose the following composite motion: * 368 Motion by THE AGENDA COMMITTEE: - That...
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MDU guidance on 'Doctors and Patients at prayer'

8/4/2009 Dr John Holden, medico-legal adviser to the Medical Defence Union, has written a very helpful article titled 'Doctors and patients at prayer' in which he steers a sensible middle way recommending that doctors should use professional judgement when discussing questions of faith with patients. MDU members with queries about discussing their faith,...
http://www.the-mdu.com/section_GPs_and_primary_care_professionals/topnav_Advice_centre_1/hidden_Article.asp?articleID=1941&contentType=Advice%20article&articleTitle=Doctors+and+patients+at+prayer&EK=840453

Should the NHS stop funding chaplains?

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Dr Evan Harris debates with an NHS chaplain.
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'Nursing Times' on the Caroline Petrie case.

25/2/2009 (published: Nursing Times) The Nursing Times of 24 February reflects on the Caroline Petrie case, reports an interview with Steve Fouch, and publishes a survey showing that 91% of nurses polled did not think the PCT should have suspended the nurse. Full article here...
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Prayer beneficial for some patients

18/2/2009 Relevant to the debate raised by the case of Caroline Petrie, on 12 February the Nursing Times reported a study in the Journal of Clinical Nursing (2009; 18:637-651) about the value of prayer for some patients. In a meta-analysis of 26 studies the authors showed that 'private prayer, when measured by frequency, is usually associated with lower...
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