End of Life

The risks of neutrality on assisted suicide – lessons from abroad

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Medicine has held a long-established opposition to assistance with suicide. Ira Byock, an American Palliative…

Why the Royal College of Physicians will go ‘neutral’ on assisted suicide and why that matters

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The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is going to poll its 35,000 members to ask whether ‘they would…

A good day to bury bad news? New CANH guidance released by BMA

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When Jo Moore infamously sent a memo saying in effect that 11 September 2001 was a good day to bury bad…

Christian doctors unite worldwide to challenge WMA on conscience rights

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The International Christian Medical and Dental Association (ICMDA) has called on the World Medical Association…

New draft guidance from the BMA will enable doctors to dehydrate and sedate to death large numbers of non-dying patients with dementia, stroke or brain damage

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This story was broken on 14 August 2018 by the Daily Mail. Is it justifiable to withdraw food and fluids…

Severely brain-damaged patients are commonly misdiagnosed, often aware and may well recover, says authoritative new report

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People with severe brain damage are difficult to diagnose reliably, not uncommonly recover and are often…

Dignity in Dying’s response to last week’s Supreme Court ruling reveals its real agenda

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The former Voluntary Euthanasia Society, re-branded ‘Dignity in Dying’ (DID) in 2006, in order to…

Supreme Court rules that doctors can remove food and fluids from patients with permanent vegetative state, without going to court

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My Radio Four Today programme interview on this case is here, and my interview with BBC Radio Five Live…

Alfie Evans has a progressive incurable illness but his parents should not be stopped from doing what they believe is best for him

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Hear my Premier Radio interview on this case here. Alfie Evans was admitted to Alder Hey Hospital,…

Transplants: are the donors really, truly dead?

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Organ donation has hit the headlines recently following a debate in Parliament. The Mirror claimed much…

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