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Dr Peter Saunders2012-12-12 16:20:292024-01-22 09:31:55Pro-euthanasia lobby gathers group of religious leaders to support its campaign
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Dr Peter Saunders2012-12-12 16:20:292024-01-22 09:31:55Pro-euthanasia lobby gathers group of religious leaders to support its campaign
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Dr Peter Saunders2012-12-12 15:17:142024-01-22 09:31:54‘Lies, damned lies and statistics’ from the Alan Guttmacher Institute
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Dr Vicky Lavy2012-12-12 13:23:122024-01-22 09:31:52The role of faith-based organisations in global health
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Dr Peter Saunders2012-12-06 14:14:462024-01-22 09:31:48The Savita case in Ireland: media reporting was muddled and misleading
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Steve Fouch2012-12-04 15:09:042024-01-22 09:31:46Nurses to be trained to give compassionate care
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Dr Peter Saunders2012-12-03 15:24:022024-01-22 09:31:44Investigation into the Liverpool Care Pathway – an update
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Dr Peter Saunders2012-12-01 15:12:592024-01-22 09:31:42Why opinion polls supporting euthanasia are a waste of space
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Dr Peter Saunders2012-11-30 14:58:182024-01-22 09:31:40RCGP Chairman Clare Gerada moves to gag doctors on ‘assisted dying’
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Dr Peter Saunders2012-11-19 15:47:122024-01-22 09:31:38Changing Ireland’s abortion law will not save any mothers and could lead to 11,000 more abortions annually
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Dr Peter Saunders2012-11-16 11:09:182024-01-22 09:31:31Savita’s death is a tragedy but is not a reason to change Ireland’s law on abortion
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Dr Peter Saunders2012-11-16 09:44:542024-01-22 09:31:29BBC Panorama findings will heighten calls for review of Tony Bland judgement
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Dr Peter Saunders2012-11-16 09:42:172024-01-22 09:31:27Japanese Robots proposed as solution for declining birthrate and workforce and increasing elderly care needs
Cut and Paste: A new revolution in genetics
Great excitement has been developing over the past few months about new opportunities to eliminate diseases using cheaper, more efficient and more precise gene-editing techniques. But these same techniques are also bringing fresh urgency to the safety and ethics of genetic engineering and ‘designer babies’. Ever since the discovery of the DNA double helix, different […]
Britain’s law on assisted suicide is not ‘broken’ and does not need ‘fixing’
On Friday 11 September MPs will vote on the Assisted Dying (No 2) Bill tabled by Labour’s Rob Marris. In case you were wondering, it’s called ‘No 2’ because an almost identical Assisted Dying Bill has been tabled in the House of Lords by Labour Peer Lord Falconer. Marris wants to change the law to […]
The assisted suicide of Gill Pharaoh reminds us that there are actually limits to choice
You can listen to my interview on this case on BBC West Midlands here. Last week I was contacted by the Sunday Times who were planning to run a high profile story about a 75 year old retired nurse being helped to kill herself in Switzerland. The story of Gill Pharaoh’s death was later published last […]
The wisdom of Solomon is needed in today’s surrogacy cases
Disturbing stories on surrogacy are hitting the headlines on a regular basis at the moment. Last week we heard about a surrogate mother who changed her mind about handing over the child she carried, to the gay couple who had paid £9,000 ‘expenses’ for her to do so. The baby boy is not genetically […]
Off Target? Do we have faith in the Sustainable Development Goals?
I remember sitting in a small room at Trinity Western University, British Columbia on a hot day in July 2003, hearing about an exciting, new, joint initiative of the World Evangelical Alliance and the Micah Network for Integral Mission. Called ‘The Micah Challenge’, its aim was to wake the worldwide church up to the opportunity to […]
Disabled people assemble mass lobby to urge MPs to reject assisted suicide bill
Disabled people descended on Westminster today in droves to lobby MPs on Rob Marris’s Assisted Dying (no 2) Bill. Marris wants to give adults who are terminally ill and mentally competent the ‘right’ to have assistance to kill themselves using lethal drugs on the say-so of two doctors and one high court judge. The bill […]
Excluding the spiritual from patient care: what is the NMC up to?
In some ways, it speaks of the nature of our times that we have created a special category of care and labelled it ‘spiritual’. In truth, all nursing and medical care has recognised that spiritual needs exist and need to be paid attention to as part of the proper care of any patient. These spiritual needs are variously defined, […]
Experts in care of the elderly speak out strongly against assisted suicide
The leading organisation representing health professionals caring for the elderly in Britain has this last week spoken out strongly against the legalisation of assisted suicide. The British Geriatrics Society is the professional body of specialists in the health care of older people in the United Kingdom. It has over 2,750 members worldwide and draws together experts from all […]
Christians must speak out about the Marris Bill on assisted suicide
Labour MP Rob Marris wants to legalise assisted suicide in England and Wales. His Assisted Dying (No 2) Bill would allowmentally competent adults (>18) judged to have less than six months to live to receive help to kill themselves once given approval by two doctors and a High Court judge. Marris’s Bill is essentially […]
Putting faith in global healthcare
I have long argued on this blog that there needs to be a greater engagement with faith based organisations and faith communities in health care planning and delivery in the UK and around the world. It is always encouraging when the wider medical community says the same thing back to you! Yesterday, the Lancet […]
The BMA: A trade union with integrity?
Can the British Medical Association (BMA) be trusted to ‘maintain the honour and interests of the medical profession?’ Or is the BMA another big organisation without full accountability, making recommendations ostensibly on behalf of its members whilst failing to operate democratically? The BMA published its parliamentary brief on 24 February regarding mitochondrial replacement techniques, otherwise […]
Abortion and preterm births: what women need to know but are not told
Prematurity – a birth prior to 37 weeks gestational age – has recently been described as: ‘the biggest challenge in western obstetrics, with severe neonatal morbidity (and a need for intensive care treatment for infant respiratory distress syndrome, feeding problems, neonatal jaundice and cerebral palsy) and infant mortality.’ In the UK 7.8% of babies […]