GP & Clin Dir @RenHSCP @NHSGGC. #ForeverFamily daddy 🏳️🌈 Past Chair @GLADDUK He/Him. Views own. LGB w/T 🏳️⚧️ SciFi fan & doctor who 💙 #DoctorWho 🤓
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My dad’s experience of dying - a thread of edited excerpts (without the medical jargon!) from my 2020 response here: bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m646… He desperately wanted the opportunity to choose to die on his terms - I promised to share his story in support of #AssistedDying ❤️ 1/14
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Online version now available: ‘Rights can be knocked out in a second’: older trans women shocked by supreme court ruling theguardian.com/society/2025…
Really pleased - the right outcome and brings @rcgp in line with @TheBMA and other major Royal Colleges 👏
RCGP shifts to position of neither supporting nor opposing assisted dying.
rcgp.org.uk/News/rcgp-positi…
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This is positive news for @kimleadbeater #AssistedDying Bill & Liam McArthur MSP’s Bill in the Scottish Parliament 👍 CC @dignityindying @_HPAD @sarah_wootton @allythomson01
It’s important that GP colleagues engage with this new survey. My strong view is that College should - like nearly all others & @TheBMA - be neutral on the topic of a change in the law on #AssistedDying. There’s no other way to accurately reflect plurality of views 🧵 below 👇
Thanks to the 8,300+ of you who’ve already responded to our survey on assisted dying.
If you haven’t yet seen the survey link, please search in the email account that is listed on your ‘My RCGP’ member account, and for an email from: [email protected].
ALT Pale blue background with blue text reading you now have until 5pm on Monday 10 February to complete our member survey on the College's position on assisted dying.
Also critical @rcgp are clear *in advance* of what criteria will be used to assess the result. Last time we had:
❌ 47% oppose
✅ 40% support
❔ 11% neutral
Yet somehow this was interpreted as a mandate to remain opposed…
Lack of clear majority should = neutrality
My experience as a GP and as a son & why I support #AssistedDying
My dad’s experience of dying - a thread of edited excerpts (without the medical jargon!) from my 2020 response here: bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m646… He desperately wanted the opportunity to choose to die on his terms - I promised to share his story in support of #AssistedDying ❤️ 1/14
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Thanks to the 8,300+ of you who’ve already responded to our survey on assisted dying.
If you haven’t yet seen the survey link, please search in the email account that is listed on your ‘My RCGP’ member account, and for an email from: [email protected].
ALT Pale blue background with blue text reading you now have until 5pm on Monday 10 February to complete our member survey on the College's position on assisted dying.
Stuart Sutton retweeted
It’s important that GP colleagues engage with this new survey when released. My strong view is that College should - like nearly all others & @TheBMA - be neutral on the topic of a change in the law on #AssistedDying. There’s no other way to accurately reflect plurality of views
The Royal College of GPs has voted to consult with members as to what its position on the legalisation of assisted dying should be. The College’s current position, adopted by RCGP Council in 2020 following a member consultation in 2019, is to oppose a change in the law on assisted dying.
Read in full on our website.
rcgp.org.uk/News/RCGP-consul…
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As is sadly often the case, the replies to this are evidence in themselves that the campaign must continue.
It is so tiring. I often wonder what it would like to be a human that could just expect to be respected by others, without having to worry.
Today is the start of LGBTQ+ History Month. #LGBTplusHM25
Far too many LGBTQ+ doctors and medical students still face discrimination. As your trade union, we are here to support you. THREAD
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Norovirus is a cool virus because it doesn't have a lipid envelope. That means it’s incredibly stable in the environment.
So in addition to causing violent vomiting, diarrhea, & stomach cramping, it can be shed in stool for 2 weeks, AND hand sanitizers are ineffective.
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Progress in LGBT rights 'fragile' - Kezia Dugdale bbc.in/4fBXCJr
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It’s important that GP colleagues engage with this new survey when released. My strong view is that College should - like nearly all others & @TheBMA - be neutral on the topic of a change in the law on #AssistedDying. There’s no other way to accurately reflect plurality of views
The Royal College of GPs has voted to consult with members as to what its position on the legalisation of assisted dying should be. The College’s current position, adopted by RCGP Council in 2020 following a member consultation in 2019, is to oppose a change in the law on assisted dying.
Read in full on our website.
rcgp.org.uk/News/RCGP-consul…
Also critical @rcgp are clear *in advance* of what criteria will be used to assess the result. Last time we had:
❌ 47% oppose
✅ 40% support
❔ 11% neutral
Yet somehow this was interpreted as a mandate to remain opposed…
Lack of clear majority should = neutrality
Perhaps a single transferable vote is the only option but ultimately when 4 in 10 GPs surveyed felt @rcgp should support a change in the law it makes no sense to me that the position of the College was one of opposition as opposed to neutrality
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The BMA is neutral on the issue of #AssistedDying – meaning we do not support or oppose a change in the law. But we have continued to discuss a number of key issues to be addressed if the law is to change.
Read our full response to today's news. bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/…
Hopeful @UKParliament decision to vote in favour of #AssistedDying at this stage will be replicated in support for @Liam4Orkney Bill before @ScotParl - already the most consulted upon Bill ever in Scotland 🏴 with significant majority support amongst the public