Laing Galazka Chair in palliative care at King’s College London. Consultant in palliative medicine.
Prof Katherine Sleeman
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This is painful.
“It was rightly described as the safest and most robust assisted dying law anywhere in the world”
Umm, only by the people trying to push it through.
🧵 Brief thread of how others described the Bill:
Prof Katherine Sleeman
It is a great privilege to have come second in the ballot for Private Member’s Bills. After giving the matter a great deal of thought, I will be reintroducing the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. You can read my full statement on this here or on my website: buff.ly/I78DfUX
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5. Organisations representing disabled people said the Bill is unsafe
6. Royal College of GPs says the Bill lacks adequate safeguards
7. Lord Stevens, ex NHS CEO, said legislating for assisted dying in the current climate of hospice cuts is “utterly ridiculous”
1. The Royal College of Physicians said the Bill is unsafe
2. The Royal College of Psychiatrists said the Bill is unworkable, and unsafe
3. The British Geriatrics Society said the Bill’s safeguards are not adequate
4. Domestic abuse charities said the Bill is unsafe
8. MIND says the safeguards are not adequate
9. The CLADD group at KCL (DOI) said the Bill is “not fit for purpose”
10. The British Association of Social Workers say the Bill’s is not safe enough
Spot the pattern?
New article on lessons learned from failure of the assisted dying Bill.
@capacitylaw.bsky.social, Gareth Owen and I argue that good law won’t be achieved by persisting with the Terminally Ill Adults Bill model, or by reintroducing it as a Private Members Bill.
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New article by @jamillahussain1.bsky.social, Rini Jones and me on implications of assisted dying legislation for ethnic minority groups
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