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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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Councils have been urged to rethink the way they provide home care for the elderly amid fears that services are too rushed and not properly tailored to people’s needs. The first ever inspection of home care in the UK today finds that although there are high levels of satisfaction with state-funded services, many older people… Read more »
Labour must find a “new way of communicating with the public”, Gordon Brown has argued as he put forward ideas for what he would do as prime minister. On the eve of his address to the Labour party conference in Manchester, which one aide admitted would be the “speech of his life”, the chancellor outlined… Read more »
