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MPs from the Labour Party, Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, and Green Party have come together to back a new amendment to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill to allow those with neurodegenerative illnesses to access assisted dying when they have twelve months or fewer to live, rather than six, as currently stipulated in the… Read more »
The UK’s largest shooting organisation has labelled the government’s justification for an increase in firearms licensing fees as bogus and warned that inefficient licensing puts guns in the hands of the wrong people. The comments from the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) come after the association wrote to all PCCs and Chief Constables… Read more »
Labour MP, Judith Cummins, told Westminster Hall about her “serious concerns” for NHS dentistry. Cummins explained that dentists are leaving the NHS for private healthcare due to the current dental contracts which make it “highly stressful” and stop dentists “providing the quality of care that they want to for patients”. The MP for Bradford South… Read more »
Conservative MP, Laura Farris, made a speech in Westminster Hall in which she highlighted the need for greater “accountability and adequacy of service” given that there has been additional funding. Farris raised the issue of wait times of two years for a diagnosis, “causing more erratic behaviours and often fall out at home as well… Read more »
