Press Releases
Producing press releases on topical issues is one way in which CMF aims to promote Christian values, especially in bioethics and healthcare, within society. Through these pages you can access all of our press releases.
For media enquiries please call Alistair Thompson on 020 3008 6063 or 07970 162 225
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Press Release: GP survey calls whole Department of Health abortion strategy into question, says CMF (10/2/2009)
The Christian Medical Fellowship says that today's nationwide survey of GPs confirms that allowing early abortions in GP surgeries would radically change family medicine and will not be in the best interests of women with crisis pregnancies. The GP Newspaper's survey of 480 UK GPs found a third would refuse to work in a surgery or polyclinic...Read Full Release...
Nurse suspended for offering prayer (2/2/2009)
Ban on prayer is discriminatory and contrary to NHS guidelines, says CMF The Christian Medical Fellowship has expressed serious concern about the case of a Christian nurse being suspended from her NHS post simply for offering to pray for a patient. Caroline Petrie, 45, a community nurse employed by North Somerset Primary Care Trust to carry out...Read Full Release...
£6 to save a life – Christian Medical Fellowship launches Zimbabwe appeal (16/12/2008)
For more details of the CMF Zimbabwe Appeal, please contact CMF International Ministries or telephone 020 7234 9660 CMF Zimbabwe Appeal Latest news on the Zimbabwe cholera outbreak The Christian Medical Fellowship has today launched an appeal to provide emergency treatment to people dying in Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic. CMF is working in...Read Full Release...
'HFE Bill introduces measures which are unproven, unnecessary and unethical', says CMF (22/10/2008)
The Christian Medical Fellowship has said that the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, which has its report and third reading stage in the House of Commons today, introduces measures which are unproven, unnecessary and unethical. Peter Saunders, CMF General Secretary said, 'The original Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 paved the...Read Full Release...
CMF calls on government to rethink its investment in cord blood collection (8/1/2008)
The Christian Medical Fellowship has welcomed a new bill encouraging the donation at childbirth of umbilical cord blood and for it to be stored for public use. It has also called on the government to invest more actively in developing the NHS cord stem cell bank. MP David Burrowes' Umbilical Cord Blood (Donation) Bill was presented to Parliament...Read Full Release...
Government accused of 'stealth' liberalisation of abortion policy (5/12/2007)
The Christian Medical Fellowship, Britain's largest group of Christian doctors, has today accused the government of 'stealth' liberalisation of abortion policy by early trialling of medical abortion in 'non-traditional' settings. While the Health Secretary has legal powers, never previously used, to approve new settings, carrying out these trials...Read Full Release...
Select Committee report deeply flawed; see minority report says CMF (31/10/2007)
The Christian Medical Fellowship has dismissed as 'deeply flawed' a Parliamentary Select Committee Report on abortion and instead pointed people to the minority report tabled by MPs Nadine Dorries and Bob Spink, which it says gives a more objective and balanced overview of the scientific evidence. The House of Commons Science and Technology...Read Full Release...
Criticisms by The Guardian newspaper – a CMF Statement (30/10/2007)
On 20 June 2007 the Science and Technology Committee of the House of Commons announced a 'New Inquiry' into 'Scientific Developments relating to the Abortion Act 1967' and invited written evidence from members of the public, with a deadline of 2 September. The length and nature of that evidence was specified, and it was specifically stated: 'The...Read Full Release...
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 'misled' Parliament in Abortion Review (24/10/2007)
The UK's largest organisation of Christian doctors has expressed concern that the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) failed to give full information to a House of Commons Select Committee over current scientific evidence for lowering the upper limit for abortion. The Science and Technology Select Committee invited submissions...Read Full Release...
Marie Stopes accused of failing to meet real needs of women in developing countries (23/10/2007)
Issued on behalf of Christian Medical Fellowship / Christian Concern For Our Nation Marie Stopes, which today hosts an international conference on the need for more abortion facilities in the developing world has been accused of failing to meet the real needs of women. Over 100 young women are expected to picket outside the 'Global Safe' Abortion...Read Full Release...