Assisted dying is an existential choice, not a treatment bmj.com/content/389/bm… Another really important question that must be answered before this bill goes any further #Palliativecare can address existential issues Prof. Mark Taubert Simon Noah Etkind

Royal College of General Practitioners confirms GPs should not deliver assisted suicide. They are too busy delivering health care and they need more time to support people dying naturally. Palliative care can help people scared of dying

The founder of the hospice movement - Dame Cicely Saunders - was asked what she thought about assisted dying in 1983

🧵As a GP with a palliative care interest, I am deeply concerned by the #assisteddyingbill. It not only threatens my vulnerable patients, it is built upon fundamental misconception.10 examples below: 🧵 Sarah Coombes for West Bromwich Sonia Kumar MP for Dudley 🌹 Alex Ballinger MP Care Not Killing Dan Hitchens 👇👇

I and Blair McDougall have written this piece in the The New Statesman to highlight the costs - in every sense - if we were to introduce #AssistedDying. There is a strong Labour case against AD. Here’s why: newstatesman.com/spotlight/heal…

Jeremy Wright MP: I do not want to live in a society where anyone, including the terminally ill, is encouraged in the belief that their lives are not valuable and valued to their very last moments.

A dark day. The government will fund your early death before your palliative care. Heartbroken now I must state publicly: I will not act to shorten your life or suggest you commit suicide. I will fight for excellent palliative care Our duty of care UK Laurence Turner Antonia Bance MP

Recent heated debates may have left some with the impression that most deaths in the UK are bad, that palliative care cannot do anything and that hospices are ghoulish places that only give morphine infusions. Think opium den, just with doctors and nurses. This is completely

Absolute honour and pleasure to welcome you here Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Thank you so much for your time yesterday.

Breaking free from prognostic paralysis in chronic advanced diseases. June 2025Palliative and Supportive Care 23 DOI: 10.1017/S1478951525100254 We need to accept and even embrace uncertainty as a cure for prognostic paralysis! Prof. Mark Taubert

In this precarious moment of national and global multicrisis, the legal system is more and more becoming our last and only hope, says Kamran Abbasi. He looks at why in Editor's Choice bmj.com/content/389/bm…

Untested, unlicensed, unregulated: prescribing and oversight issues in physician-assisted dying/suicide spcare.bmj.com/content/15/4/4…

bit.ly/45PyYEf Primary palliative care has been traditionally defined as care provided by primary health care workers. We agree that current definitions should recognize the vital role of community-centered approaches. #palliativecare

The UK must not fail Gaza—a call for government action bmj.com/content/390/bm… mhoira leng

The time people in Scotland can expect to live in good health, without serious illness or disability, has fallen to a 10 year low. NatRecordsScot figures show those born in 2021-2023 can expect 60 years for females and 59.6 for males on average. ▶️publichealthscotland.scot/news/2025/july…

Live well, die well: how can we do it? rse.org.uk/event/live-wel…. Everyone welcome to this workshop! #goodlifegooddeathgoodgrief

Science of forecasting: new methods to predict death spcare.bmj.com/content/early/…

doi.org/10.1136/spcare… Maybe we can learn from weather or economic forecasting? Prof. Mark Taubert BMJ SPCare APM Reports The BMJ Ollie Minton Dr Rachel Clarke BBC Politics Usher Institute The University of Edinburgh Jane Maher💙also on Bluesky Or is the uncertainty wired in to dying?

Starvation is a lifelong sentence: Gaza’s civilians must be protected in accordance with international humanitarian law bmj.com/content/390/bm…

Palliative & Supportive Care , Volume 23 , 2025 , e124 DOI: doi.org/10.1017/S14789… Avoid ‘prognostic paralysis’—just get ahead and plan and coordinate care. Also known as "early palliative care" Prof. Mark Taubert Prognostication is a distraction!