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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?
New genetic tests and difficult questions facing expectant parents
A front page article in the Daily Telegraph today describes how researchers have been able to map in great detail the genetic code of an unborn baby at 18 weeks gestation. Taking a blood sample from the mother and a swab of saliva from the father the researchers were able to scan the fetus’ genome […]
Abortion and euthanasia dominate ethics agenda at BMA annual meeting
Abortion and euthanasia are to be debated at a major BMA meeting later this month. The British Medical Association (BMA) holds its annual representative meeting, where it sets policy for the next year, in Bournemouth in the last week of June. An almost unprecedented number of motions on abortion and euthanasia are listed on the […]
‘Personal Beliefs and Medical Practice’ – guide to responding to the GMC consultation
The General Medical Council (GMC) is currently consulting on a range of new guidance to doctors. Overall there are no less than nine separate documents up for discussion. The most contentious and controversial of these is ‘Personal Beliefs and Medical Practice’ (PBMP), which deals with both faith-related discussions within a medical consultation and also conscientious […]
Pro-euthanasia activists gear up for fresh assault on Parliament
The next six weeks are shaping up to be very busy on the euthanasia front as pro-euthanasia activists gear up for a new assault on the media, the courts, the medical profession and parliament. On 19-22 June three Judges in the High Court will hear the joined cases of two men with conditions resembling locked-in […]
Are our genes us?
‘My father’s genetic influence has always been very much a part of who I am. It has shaped the physical way I look; influenced the way I view the world; affected the way I address problem-solving and coloured the way I assess what is important to me. In short it has defined what is essentially, […]
Miracles in Madagascar
CMF member Dr Victoria Parsonson spent two weeks last Summer at the Developing Health Course – run by CMF’s International Ministries department. A few thousand miles away and one year later, the skills she picked up have proven to be more than valuable. Victoria has been sending us short updates over the last few months […]
There are few things more horrifying than the slaughter of innocent children
BBC Radio Four led on the Syrian massacre this morning describing it in graphic terms as the ‘deliberate mass killing of children’ who ’were murdered one by one’. The story was also one of the top three on the BBC website earlier today along with the account of six children dying in a house fire […]
What’s wrong with the General Medical Council’s draft guidance on ‘Personal Beliefs and Medical Practice’?
The General Medical Council (GMC) is currently consulting on a range of new guidance to doctors. Overall there are no less than nine separate documents up for discussion. The most contentious and controversial of these is ‘Personal Beliefs and Medical Practice’ (PBMP), which deals with issues around faith discussions within a medical consultation and conscientious objection. […]
Faith, health & the World Health Organisation
The World Health Assembly in Geneva comes to an end today, after a relatively uneventful few days. The WHA is the strategy setting body for the World Health Organisation, and so its decisions affect the global health priorities of the world for the coming years. At this year’s Assembly there was a major new push […]
Abortion: ‘A caring service’
A BBC 5 radio programme has broadcast live from an abortion clinic, describing what happens to women when they go to a clinic and interviewing two women who have recently had an abortion, as well as the staff there. The whole abortion procedure is dressed up with a pleasant cloak of respectability. The ‘treatment room’ […]
Of course, nursing needs ‘compassion’
New nurses should be judged on their compassion not just their skills, according to Sir Keith Pearson, chairman of the NHS Confederation. He’s been addressing the Royal College of Nursing’s (RCN) annual conference in Harrogate, and is one of the authors of a critical report into standards of care for older people and is expected to call for big […]
Assisted suicide deaths increase by 40% in one year in Washington State
The number of Washington state residents who died of physician-assisted suicide rose to 70 in 2011, up from 51 in 2010 and 36 in 2009, when the state’s Death With Dignity Act took effect. The Washington State Dept. of Health reported in May that 103 patients requested and received lethal doses of medications from 80 […]