RT @PCOCPallCare: 🎉 Happy National Palliative Care Week #NPCW #PCA! 🎉. To celebrate, PCOC has asked several key members of the sector to re….

RT @PCOCPallCare: 🎉 For National Palliative Care Week #NPCW #PCA, we reached out to a few significant members of the sector and asked them….

RT @PCOCPallCare: 🌟 During National Palliative Care Week #NPCW #PCA, it is incredibly valuable to hear the voices of patients/clients and t….

RT @PCOCPallCare: Initiating conversations with prominent figures in the sector during National Palliative Care Week #NPCW #PCA was incred….

RT @PCOCPallCare: We have thoroughly enjoyed reading the diversity of reflections we gathered for National Palliative Care Week #NPCW #PCA,….

RT @PCOCPallCare: A key pillar of PCOC’s governance are our Chief Investigators: Distinguished Professor Patsy Yates, Professor Kirsten Aur….

Most RCPsych members “would not be willing to participate in an AD/AS service including determination of capacity or assessing mental disorder.”. “Bill does not address the more subtle forms of coercion such as where a person may internalise a feeling of being a burden.”.

Many British Geriatrics Society “members are not confident that effective legal safeguards could be developed to protect older people. the risk for safeguard failure is at least moderate in a modern, well-run AD service which we find to be unacceptable.”.

RT @danny__kruger: The Assisted Suicide Bill Committee has finished. My final speech here. This is not the Bill the public thought they wer….

RT @kesleeman: This is a very important clip. On how the assisted dying bill will would require us to rewrite our suicide prevention strate….

RT @ProfMarkTaubert: There's the cost/economic argument for #AssistedDying coming through. Last years of life most costly to healthcare, sa….

RT @kesleeman: An FoI to Dept Work and Pensions reveals 1 in 5 people given 6 months to live are still alive after three years. Not surpri….

RT @SunitaPuriMD: Resharing my Atlantic piece about Jimmy Carter wanting to survive long enough to vote for Kamala. Dying cannot stop our y….

The importance of social work and palliative care in aged care cannot be overlooked. Thanks Palliative Care Australia and @jowoodSW for these insights and advocacy.

RT @Fox_Claire: Today was one of best days of debate since being in the Lords. A big moral decsion on whether to change the law on #Assiste….

RT @thelizcarr: Dying/ill/disabled people still need suicide prevention & support if we feel we want to die. Assisted suicide laws tends….

RT @kesleeman: Someone explain to me how this is not glamourising suicide.

RT @ProfMarkTaubert: Again, "safeguards". @jessphillips I think is minister for safeguarding: You would need people trained to the hilt, in….