Aim: Educate the next generation of clinicians, and the wider population, about the benefits of learning from your patients' lives through Palliative Medicine.
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PallMedEd retweeted
MPs chose to impose this Bill on Wales where the situation on palliative and hospice care is even worse. @CubbageEleri points out to the New Statesman a quarter of the population does not have access to hospice beds. Where is the choice for them?
Thanks @NewStatesman for publishing my letter and thanks to palliative care doctors like @ProfMarkTaubert for challenging the legislation
PallMedEd retweeted
“As a constituency MP … I heard on more than one occasion—and I wish this wasn’t the case but it’s categorically true—people speak in the most unsavoury terms about wanting family members not to be alive.”
Baroness Luciana Berger explains why she is concerned about the proposals to change the law on assisted dying.
Luciana Berger on @PolInsideOut, brought to you by Woburn Partners, speaking to @GloriaDePiero and @JonAshworth.
Listen now.
linktr.ee/politicsinsideout
PallMedEd retweeted
The Health Secretary KNOWS Starmer's Bill is NOT safe. People will be "compelled to take up an assisted death" because of the state of NHS and palliative care.
He is an honest man but the Prime Minister has compelled his and every minister's silence.
🙏Josh Fenton-Glynn MP. Watch for the emphasis on 'workability' - not safety - at the end from the Permanent Secretary.
PallMedEd retweeted
@kesleeman @ProfMarkTaubert @IloraFinlay
Meanwhile…
“There are 13 proposed amendments to the legislation”
premier.vic.gov.au/compassio…
PallMedEd retweeted
🎉 Happy National Palliative Care Week #NPCW #PCA! 🎉
To celebrate, PCOC has asked several key members of the sector to reflect on how palliative care in Australia has evolved over the past 20 years.
@Pall_Care_Aus's CEO, Camilla Rowland provides her reflections:
Most RCPsych members “would not be willing to participate in an AD/AS service including determination of capacity or assessing mental disorder.”
“Bill does not address the more subtle forms of coercion such as where a person may internalise a feeling of being a burden.”
The Royal College of Psychiatrists on the Leadbeater Bill: rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-featu…
Many British Geriatrics Society “members are not confident that effective legal safeguards could be developed to protect older people... the risk for safeguard failure is at least moderate in a modern, well-run AD service which we find to be unacceptable.”
bgs.org.uk/bgs-position-stat…
PallMedEd retweeted
The Assisted Suicide Bill Committee has finished. My final speech here. This is not the Bill the public thought they were getting. It contradicts the NHS Act and the Hippocratic Oath. It's got worse, not better, in committee.
PallMedEd retweeted
This is a very important clip. On how the assisted dying bill will would require us to rewrite our suicide prevention strategy, and on wider societal implications including non-assisted suicide
PallMedEd retweeted
There's the cost/economic argument for #AssistedDying coming through. Last years of life most costly to healthcare, saving difficult to cost. Three studies attempted this, all indicated that AD laws can result in a substantial net reduction in healthcare costs 👇🧵
PallMedEd retweeted
An FoI to Dept Work and Pensions reveals 1 in 5 people given 6 months to live are still alive after three years.
Not surprising to any clinician.
But pretty relevant to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life)* Bill
*aka assisted dying
PallMedEd retweeted
Resharing my Atlantic piece about Jimmy Carter wanting to survive long enough to vote for Kamala. Dying cannot stop our yearning to make meaning, inspire and contribute. Death is generative. Who we are never ends. theatlantic.com/health/archi…
