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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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By politics.co.uk staff Dire warning over the complete collapse of the prison system has been sounded as the UK sinks further into recession, prison experts have warned. “The prison system is at a standstill, an achievement given the budget cuts and ever-worsening overcrowding, but a standstill nonetheless,” Andrew Neilson, head of public affairs and policy… Read more »
A Conservative MP is calling on the information commissioner to overrule government attempts to keep the sites of Titan prisons under wraps. John Baron’s original freedom of information request asking for the sites to be specified was rejected by the government. “Ministers want to buy the land for a Titan prison without even telling local… Read more »
