Author Index - Rick Thomas
Rick Thomas is CMF Public Policy Researcher
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Public Health England - Informed Choice Consultation (16/11/2017)
The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) is consulting on its guidance covering the development, production and review of information to support all UK population screening programmes. Their aim is...
Submission to NHS England Consultation on Specialised Gender Identity Services for Adults (19/10/2017)
NHS England has been holding a 12-week public consultation on proposals for new service specifications that, if adopted, describe how specialised gender identity services for adults will be commissioned and...
Submission to UN Draft General Comment on Article 6 of OHCHR Convenant (09/10/2017)
In July 2017, during its 120th session, the UN Human Rights Committee finalised its first reading of draft General Comment on article 6 [Right to Life] of the Covenant and...
Guideline scope - Termination of pregnancy (18/07/2017)
Published 20 July 2017 The Department of Health in England has asked NICE to develop a new guideline on Termination of Pregnancy. Around one in three women will have...
Transgender, how to understand it - as disobedience, dysphoria or deconstruction? Vaughan Roberts steers towards pastoral sensitivity and robust biblical clarity. Roberts shows how gender identity has been dislocated from biological sex, assuming that we should seek to alter a person's body to conform to their sense of gender identity, and...
Rick Thomas looks at transgenderism and the agenda feeding it. Government legislation and professional guidelines reflect cultural trends. As culture changes, and with it the notion of what is generally acceptable, the lawmakers follow suit. Thus, what was deemed unthinkable by one generation may be tolerated by the next and commonplace...
NICE: Sexually Transmitted Infections - Condom Distribution Schemes (13/09/2016)
NICE is consulting over proposals to provide a range of condom distribution schemes in an attempt to reduce the spread of STIs. Schemes under consideration include multicomponent schemes for young...
GMC - Developing the UK medical register: a public consultation (12/08/2016)
The GMC is seeking to revise and improve the List of Registered Medical Practitioners (LRMP) so that it provides more and better information, and is easier to use.CMF has contributed...
NICE - end of life care for infants and children (12/08/2016)
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has drafted guidelines for end of life care for infants, children and young people with life-limiting conditions. The guidelines cover care planning...
Nuffield Council on Bioethics - prenatal testing (01/08/2016)
Nuffield Council on Bioethics - Call for views and evidence on non-invasive prenatal testing.To explore the ethical, legal and regulatory implications of recent and potential future scientific developments in non-invasive...
