Middle East
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 »
Latest articles
Unrest across North Africa and the Middle East could set the peace process back by decades, William Hague has warned.
By politics.co.uk staff Foreign secretary William Hague is meeting Tunisia’s new interim government. His visit, coming in the wake of mass protests which ousted former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from power, is the first stage of the Foreign Office’s bid to bolster the north African country’s fledgling democracy. New UK funding supporting reform… Read more »
