A senior professor of old-age psychiatry has branded the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ (RCPsych) approach to the Assisted Dying Bill ‘inconsistent with the college membership’. Baroness Elaine Murphy, a prominent medical member of the House of Lords, has added her voice to a growing number of RCPsych members, including a former college president and vice-president,… Read more »
The House of Lords Select Committee on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life Bill) held the first oral evidence sessions today, where it heard overwhelmingly that patient choice and autonomy are enhanced by the introduction of assisted dying. The Bill sponsors and three representatives from Royal Colleges all said that patients will be able… Read more »
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Environmental concerns will “run through” all elements of the Liberal Democrats’ agenda, according to its environment spokesman Norman Baker. In a keynote speech at the party conference in Bournemouth, Norman Baker lambasted the other parties’ environmental record and promised that the Lib Dems would be different. Both Tony Blair and the Conservative leader Michael Howard… Read more »
The Liberal Democrat leader has suggested that in the event of a hung Parliament the Liberal Democrats would remain independent. There had been suggestions that in the event of a hung Parliament the Liberal Democrats might be prepared to work with Labour in a similar manner as to the governing coalition in Scotland. Yesterday, speaking… Read more »
