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Dr Peter Saunders2017-03-08 13:30:382024-01-22 09:38:41My speech to the New Zealand Parliament Health Select Committee on Assisted Suicide
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Dr Peter Saunders2017-03-08 13:30:382024-01-22 09:38:41My speech to the New Zealand Parliament Health Select Committee on Assisted Suicide
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Dr Peter Saunders2017-03-07 12:59:432024-01-22 09:38:41Increasing survival of extremely premature babies again raises questions about upper abortion limits
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Steve Fouch2017-03-03 09:42:302024-01-22 09:38:40Activists’ attempt to legalise abortion on demand up until birth is both unnecessary and unwanted
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Guest2017-03-02 09:47:382024-01-22 09:38:39End of Life Issues. What can we expect in 2017?
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Philippa Taylor2017-03-01 16:10:272024-01-22 09:38:39Sex and Relationship Education: should it be compulsory in schools or not?
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Dr Peter Saunders2017-02-21 16:28:222024-01-22 09:38:38Regulator’s proposal to remove pharmacists’ conscience rights is unethical, unnecessary and quite possibly illegal
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Philippa Taylor2017-02-14 07:35:572024-01-22 09:38:38Surrogacy – good rulings from Europe put the UK out on a limb
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Andre Woolgar2017-02-11 14:38:502024-01-22 09:38:37The age-old question: Science and political interests in the debate over abortion
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Steve Fouch2017-01-27 16:19:442024-01-22 09:38:36Global Health – challenges for the coming year
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Philippa Taylor2017-01-11 15:59:232024-01-22 09:38:35Beginning of Life issues in 2017: what will we be talking about this year?
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Steve Fouch2017-01-09 09:46:162024-01-22 09:38:34Bullying and NHS Culture
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Philippa Taylor2017-01-05 15:43:412024-01-22 09:38:34Despite the marketing, egg freezing is not all it’s cracked up to be
Why legalising assisted suicide for anyone at all will inevitably lead to incremental extension
Pro-euthanasia activists always make a great play of how their proposals to help people kill themselves are extremely modest and are bound by ‘robust safeguards’. Dignity in Dying, the former Voluntary Euthanasia Society, is a world leader in this art and their new draft bill, championed by Lord Falconer, is a classic example. It’s only […]
Pigs and plasters
I always enjoy week two of the Developing Health Course. By now we have got to know one another, shared some laughs and got used to the strange coffee. We are all ages and stages, from a fourth year medical student from Leeds, to a nurse who’s spent 26 years in Ghana. Participants are, or […]
Former Lord Chancellor misrepresents BMA position
The Times today carries an article (£) promoting Lord Falconer’s new assisted suicide bill which profoundly misrepresents the British Medical Association’s position on assisted suicide. The Times initially adopted a campaigning stance in support of legalising assisted suicide with an editorial titled ‘Life and Death’(£) at the time of Falconer’s unsuccessful amendment to the […]
The legalisation of assisted suicide – what’s money got to do with it?
Today, according to the Sunday Times, Lord Falconer (pictured) will publish his new bill on assisted suicide (details here). In line with the recommendations of his sham ‘Commission on Assisted Dying’ he will push for doctors being given the power to help mentally competent adults with less than one year to live to kill […]
Minding the gap – Developing Health Course 2012
We are half way through the Developing Health Course, after a fantastic first week. We have learned about community health, mental health, tropical medicine, HIV, paediatrics, ophthalmology, palliative care… and much, much more. This is the fourth time I’ve run the course and it’s great to meet a new crowd of participants each time. Some […]
Abortion counselling gets BMA backing
This week has seen some important voting on abortion and assisted dying when the British Medical Association held its Annual Representative Meeting in Bournemouth. The ARM provides the primary opportunity for BMA policy and professional practice to be debated and voted on by its members. Motions are put down several weeks in advance, a few […]
BMA Ethics Debate – great results on both abortion and euthanasia
This morning the British Medical Association Annual Representative Meeting debated two motions on abortion and one on euthanasia. Motion 328 called for the meeting to support the universal availability of non-directive counselling for women considering abortion. It said that the counselling should be in accordance with NHS standards and independent of the abortion provider if […]
Why the BMA should not go neutral on assisted suicide and euthanasia
This Wednesday, 27 June, the British Medical Association Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) will vote on a motion to go neutral on assisted suicide and euthanasia. The BMA, the trade union for doctors, has been opposed to a change in the law for all but one year of its 180 year history. But those proposing the […]
Is the NHS really killing 130,000 patients a year with the Liverpool Care Pathway?
The Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph this week have run a story claiming that the NHS ‘kills off a 130,000 elderly patients every year’ through use of a ‘death pathway’. The story has been picked up relatively uncritically by many news outlets around the world, and particularly pro-life sites (see here and here). The claims […]
Open letter to Sir Graeme Catto, Chairman of Dignity in Dying
I have just made a formal complaint about a polling question which I believe may breach several Rules of the Market Research Society Code Guidelines. The question was posed by two campaigning organisations, Dignity in Dying (DID) (aka the Voluntary Euthanasia Society) and its offspring Healthcare Professionals for Assisted Dying (HPAD), with the aim of […]
Reprimanded by the GMC for sharing faith with a patient – Dr Richard Scott
On 14 June the General Medical Council’s Investigation Committee reprimanded a Christian doctor who shared his faith with a patient at the end of a private consultation. They ruled that his actions ‘did not meet the standards required of a doctor’. Dr Richard Scott (pictured) has now been issued with a warning which will remain […]
Same-sex parenting: controversies with the latest research
A major new study on same sex parenting has generated a great deal of online debate, particularly in the US where it was carried out, but it has also spilled over to the UK. Some of the headlines suggest that this new research ‘proves’ that gay parents are bad parents and that homosexual parenting is […]