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The legalisation of assisted dying in Jersey has taken another step as proposals have been lodged in the States Assembly. Channel Island Humanists welcomes the proposals, as another part of the British Isle moves closer to a compassionate end-of-life law. The proposals will allow residents of Jersey who are intolerably suffering from a physical, incurable condition… Read more »
BASC has welcomed the announcement by the Secretary of State for Defra of a new general licence (GL45) for the release of game birds (pheasant and red legged partridges) on or near certain Special Protection Areas (SPAs) in England. After the chaos of last year’s announcement at short notice, BASC has achieved significant improvements to… Read more »
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The government has been urged to do more to ensure that women are given more choice in where they give birth. A survey of 26,000 women who gave birth in January and February conducted by the Healthcare Commission revealed that half were not given the choice of a home-birth. Government guidelines stipulate that women are… Read more »
New GPs will be parachuted into deprived areas in a bid to reduce health inequalities, the government announced today. Health secretary Alan Johnson said today the first new GP practices will open within a year. In October, in his first major speech at the Department of Health (DoH), Mr Johnson made it a government ambition… Read more »
