NHS Consultant HIV/Hepatitis/GUM @MMC_cnwl | Hon. Assoc. Prof @UCL | @BritishHIVAssoc Guidelines Subcommittee Chair | @NHSEnglandLDN Hep B Group | Views my own
Humilitas est Veritas
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A great way to celebrate #NHS75 is to welcome the first #NHS #HepatitisB Peer Support worker! 👋🏻
Our wonderful new @CNWLNHS colleague Joy Ko will be supporting people living with Hep B along their journey from diagnosis to recovery.
So excited Joy is joining us @MMC_cnwl 😀
Agree with you @DocSteve that expanded ED Testing so important in diagnosing people with #HepatitisB The @LiverTrust ‘s excellent report “Break The Silence” is a roadmap to better designed pathways & care britishlivertrust.org.uk/wp-…
Indeed I predict the numbers of #HepatitisB diagnoses are going to increase +++ when we start testing in @uhbtrust Heartlands Hospital Emergency Department
I think
@aelsharkawy75 @Dr_Stuart @pippa_matt would agree?
Dr Stuart Flanagan retweeted
We've delighted to be in Westminster tonight, launching our new report "Hepatitis B: Break the Silence" with MPs at parliament.
We're speaking with MPs about how to best work towards the @WHO's ambition to eliminate #hepatitisB in the UK by 2030.
Read the report: britishlivertrust.org.uk/wp-…
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"These patterns suggest that #AssistedDying may exploit systemic neglect, particularly at the intersections of gender, poverty & isolation, and may better be described as structural coercion to die—essentially the opposite of autonomy."
A Canadian #AssistedDying case reviewer speaks out:
Discrimination-driven deaths - Analysing Ontario Coroner Reports on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide - go.shr.lc/4gdtuWh
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Devil in the detail of the assisted dying Bill.
Letters in The Times, including one from me and 14 other palliative care specialists.
@Dr_N_Wiggins @drkathrynmannix @doctor_oxford @pollyedmonds @CarolUHS @SBajwah @ProfMarkTaubert @BakerIdris @drol007 @bathmatt
Dr Stuart Flanagan retweeted
I have attended. It is holy ground. There are deep, unspoken emotions for the one preparing to leave. Deep lessons for the ones that remain.
Dying was the sacred part of living. It still is.
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The age old custom of sitting with the dying confirms that suffering differs; emotionally, spiritually, and physically. Accompanying the dying soothes the first two. Palliative care soothes the third.
Myths abound to justify euthanizing the vulnerable. We can do better.
Dear @Keir_Starmer #AssistedDying would mark a fundamental shift to the patient-doctor relationship and diminish the shared humanity of us all.
Every life has value.
Stand for Justice and for the vulnerable.
Vote against the bill today.
Dear @Keir_Starmer:
the #assisteddying bill promises choice, but offers only coercion, anxiety and fear.
It would be a fundamental shift in the Patient-Doctor relationship.
Make good your promise to the electorate - more investment in palliative and social care services.
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I don't want anyone to say, a decade down the line, that they were not warned, that they did not know this would happen, if this bill passes.
"Kim Leadbeater suggests fear of being a burden is ‘legitimate reason’ for dying
"MP bringing assisted dying Bill to Parliament has not grasped ‘subtleties of societal coercion’, opponents say"
telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
A very thoughtful and considered approach to making such a momentous decision on the #AssistedDying Bill. Thank you @CalumMillerLD for listening to others as well as reflecting on & sharing your personal experience.
Dr Stuart Flanagan retweeted
**Assisted Dying** Friday's parliamentary vote on @kimleadbeater's Private Member's Bill risks introducing such a profound change to the fabric of society. While I understand that the subject is highly emotive, I believe the risks associated with legalising assisted suicide far outweigh the presumed benefits. It is a subject I have written about and been interview on before. Here are several reasons I am concerned about this bill: 🧵1/
Dr Stuart Flanagan retweeted
This is ludicrously idiotic. Her bill itself, in sections 24(3) and 29(2) respectively, changes the Suicide Act (1961) and Births and Deaths Registration Act (1953), and in section 29(1) also changes the interpretation of certain parts of the Coroners and Justice Act (2009)!
"The concept of a slippery slope, I will dismiss that, because once this bill is passed... The bill cannot be changed."
Labour MP Kim Leadbeater responds to concerns that, if passed, restrictions in the assisted dying bill will be amended over time.
#R4Today
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
In many states with assisted dying laws, the courts have re-interpreted the laws to wider scopes than legislators envisaged:
theguardian.com/society/2024/n…
Activists have indicated they will try to use the ECHR to expand the scope of any law in the UK:
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2024/11/19/phi…
Dr Stuart Flanagan retweeted
Proponents of AD point to the limited scope of the Bill: terminal illness.
But once the principle behind suicide prevention has been set aside, once any part of the ground has been ceded - not only to allow suicide but to assist it - we have lost something we may not get back.
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The oldest trick in the book by politicians who want to legalise assisted suicide is to discredit opposition as being religious
Opposition increasingly comes from all directions including 350+ disability rights organisation in the UK - & not one is religious.
#AssistUsToLive
Every disabled-led organisation in the UK has rejected assisted suicide - none of them are religious. It is a cheap and nasty trick to characterise opponents of AS as religously-motivated. Listen to us - every person eligible for AS is a disabled person. theguardian.com/society/2024…
Dear @Keir_Starmer:
the #assisteddying bill promises choice, but offers only coercion, anxiety and fear.
It would be a fundamental shift in the Patient-Doctor relationship.
Make good your promise to the electorate - more investment in palliative and social care services.
Thank you to the UK CMOs for this thoughtful and considered letter on the national discussion on #assisteddying, and in particular that Doctors and other Healthcare workers should be able to exercise freedom of conscience on this, and on abortion. A very important statement.
The UK CMOs, DCMOs and NHSE National Medical Director have given advice to help doctors wanting to take part in the national debate on assisted dying.
Please see the letter below:
gov.uk/government/publicatio…
Happy 60th Anniversary #DoctorWho!
Thank you for a lifetime of fun, friends and adventures.
Here’s to Happy Times and Places 🥳
VOLVER: the first study named after an Amodóvar film.
Looking forward to:
- All About My Adverse Side Effects
- What Have I Done To Deserve Non-Inferiority?
- Principal Investigators on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown #EACS2023
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Dr Stuart Flanagan retweeted
Prof. Graham Foster receiving a distinguished service award at #BASL2023 for his lifetime of clinical and academic work in hepatology, striving for global hepatitis C elimination and championing care for people with liver diseases.
I’m privileged to count him as a mentor.
Dr Stuart Flanagan retweeted
#Multimorbidity #HepatitisC remains a common #BBV and #OlderPeople are often overlooked during screening, luckily our local blanket BBV testing in @NCL_ICS EDs has les to better identification and treatment @Dr_Stuart @MMC_cnwl @EuGMSSociety @GeriSoc #EuGMS2023 #EuGMS #Hepatitis
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And we also have this poster at BASL @aelsharkawy75 @pippa_matt @LiverTrust @Dr_Stuart People with HBV experience extreme stigma. Time to make changes.
