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Rick Thomas is CMF Public Policy Researcher
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NHS Public Consultation on Gender Identity Development Service (20/04/2016)
Submission from Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) regarding the prescribing of cross-sex hormones to adolescents with gender dysphoria.NHS England recently launched a 30 day public consultation on a number of new...
Changing views of transsexuality are making waves in popular culture, politics and medicine. This File examines these developments from a Christian and scientific perspective and will be of interest to health professionals, pastors, churches, organisations and families relating to people with gender dysphoria (previously gender identity disorder). It updates a...
Nuffield Council on Bioethics – Cosmetic procedures (18/03/2016)
Submission from the Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) in response to a call for evidence concerning Cosmetic Procedures.The availability and use of invasive cosmetic procedures, both surgical and non-surgical, to enhance...
Nuffield Council on Bioethics – Genome Editing (02/02/2016)
The Council has invited written submissions of evidence to inform its examination of ethical issues arising in relation to genome editing, an emerging family of biological techniques for making precise...
Health Select Committee of the New Zealand Parliament (02/02/2016)
- Petition of Hon Maryan Street and 8,974 others:That the House of Representatives investigate fully public attitudes towards the introduction of legislation which would permit medically-assisted dying in the event...
New test creates more problems than it solves Review by Rick Thomas CMF Public Policy Researcher The UK National Screening Committee (NSC) is recommending a new test for pregnant women that will detect a higher proportion of fetuses with Down Syndrome. (1) The test is performed around ten weeks,...
UK National Screening Committee Consultation on Screening for cfDNA in pregnancy (29/10/2015)
CMF has responded to the UK National Screening Committee Consultation. Information about the consultation can be found here. The UK National Screening Committee is currently consulting on a new screening...
NICE - care of the dying adult (06/10/2015)
The guidance covers the clinical care of adults who are in the last few days of life, in any NHS care setting. It includes how to recognise when people are...
Rick Thomas highlights an often-overlooked problem. Imagine. You and your partner are experienced foster carers. The boy presently in your care is six years old and has been with you for four years. You never met the birth mother and have little information about the boy's early life. He is...
Many people fear that during a final illness they will suffer uncontrollable pain, or indignities, or be 'kept alive' by technology longer than they would wish. So the thought that they could 'call time' on their struggle before they lose control will appear understandably attractive. They see the prospect of...
