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Dr Peter Saunders2011-06-23 09:21:502024-01-22 09:22:19A letter to Jeremy Hunt about BBC media portrayal of suicide
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-06-23 09:21:502024-01-22 09:22:19A letter to Jeremy Hunt about BBC media portrayal of suicide
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-06-23 08:32:282024-01-22 09:22:22New ‘withdrawal of treatment’ case poses major threat to disabled people
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Guest2011-06-22 05:38:192024-01-22 09:22:16Reclaiming dignity in dying
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Steve Fouch2011-06-20 21:37:382024-01-22 09:22:14Human rights of the elderly once again being neglected
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-06-20 05:13:252024-01-22 09:22:12General Medical Council confirms the appropriateness of sensitive faith discussions with patients
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-06-16 15:45:462024-01-22 09:22:11At a Given Moment – recognising worldview as part of a healthy diagnosis
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Steve Fouch2011-06-16 09:46:092024-01-22 09:22:05A surprisingly upbeat end to the UN high level meeting on AIDS promises renewed global action
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-06-16 09:26:092024-01-22 09:22:04Twenty facts we did not learn from Terry Pratchett’s BBC ‘documentary’ on assisted suicide in Europe
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-06-16 08:51:332024-01-22 09:22:03World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (15 June) – A reminder to treasure, honour and protect the older members of our community
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Steve Fouch2011-06-15 10:45:392024-01-22 09:22:03NHS reforms expose the British idolatry of our healthcare system
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-06-15 09:05:282024-01-22 09:22:17New BBC Radio Four programme – Are we in for more bludgeoning of disabled people?
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Steve Fouch2011-06-14 08:35:132024-01-22 09:22:02The collapse of Southern Cross – is capitalism crushing care and compassion?
Walk75 | Prayer Walk for Health
This year, we celebrate 75 years since the Christian Medical Fellowship came into being. Over that time, God has done some amazing things through Christian medics, nurses, midwives, and others coming together to pray, study God’s word, serve and encourage one another, and share the good news of Jesus. In the UK and worldwide, we […]
McArthur ‘Assisted Dying’ Bill announced
On 29 March 2024, Liam McArthur, MSP, announced his ‘Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill’ to the Scottish Parliament. This will now be debated and scrutinised by the Parliament. If passed, it would mean the legalisation of doctor-assisted suicide for those with an advanced illness who choose it, within the Scottish NHS. The […]
A confluence of evils
There are times when you see a confluence of evils merging from afar, but they merge so slowly that most people remain totally unaware of them, or if they are they just shrug their shoulders and move on. I first wrote about my concerns over organ donation from those requesting euthanasia (ODfE) in 2017 when Belgium […]
Midwifery in the headlines
Midwifery was in the news for all the wrong reasons at the end of last year. As a midwife of ten years, I was heartbroken to read headlines from The Times that said: ‘Midwives “toxic” working conditions putting babies’ lives at risk, report finds‘ and The Telegraph that said: “Russian roulette’ maternity units risk lives […]
Striking the right balance
how can Christian medics decide about industrial action? Until a decade ago, I was a medic struggling through the NHS quagmire. So, when I had the opportunity to join the CMF Junior Doctors Conference back in November 2023, I prepared myself to meet lots of doctors now near drowning in the thickening muck. In the […]
Want to change the future?
Having grown up in a TV family, I particularly loved movies that fostered the imagination, especially time travel. To be able to change what could have been or what might be, was the stuff of childhood dreams. What would you change if you could time travel? Suppose you could jump in a time machine, and […]
The ‘Letby effect’ on this paediatric nurse
Firstly, let me say that I cannot even begin to imagine the grief the families involved in this case must have gone through these last eight years and are still going through. The atrocities committed by Lucy Letby are chilling and deeply distressing. Honestly, it doesn’t seem enough to say that my ‘thoughts and prayers’ […]
The UK’s first womb transplant – what the media missed out
The first UK ‘womb transplant’, carried out by Richard Smith’s team in Oxford and announced at the end of August, understandably gained a lot of press coverage and was heralded by some as the ‘dawn of a new era’. In fact, the first uterus transplant was carried out in 2000 in Saudi Arabia in a […]
Lucy Letby – a warning for NHS culture
The tragic loss of life and heartache caused by Lucy Letby is beyond imagination. Our hearts go out to all those affected. Undoubtedly, mistakes were made that look even worse with the power and accuracy of the ‘retrospectoscope’. Patient safety was not put first, nor was the dogged pursuit of the truth of what happened […]
Lucy Letby- a deep grief
This is such a deeply disturbing case. One of the most horrifying scandals to ever hit the NHS. A neonatal nurse killed seven babies and attempted to murder six more. The perpetrator being a nurse is causing our nurse and midwife members, and us in the CMF Nurses & Midwives team, real grief. First, we’d […]
Doctors on strike – reflections of a conflicted consultant
On 1 August 1983, my life changed forever. I started work in the NHS. I lost all that I had known of normal life and have spent the last 40 years working in a broken system. I am in no doubt it needs fixing. Navigating endless demands with inadequate resources has been costly. From the […]
Complete societal capture on abortion
The sentencing of a woman for two years imprisonment for performing a home abortion with pills obtained via a phone consultation raises lots of questions. However, the main question asked in an almost universal chorus of headlines was why are our ‘archaic’ and ‘unfair’ abortion laws still in place? ‘A woman has been jailed for […]