We're in the Christmas BMJ this year! Reflecting on and weighing up the British National Formulary! #BMJChristmas @auralapothecary.pharmsky.app @velindrecc.bsky.social @vcclibrary.bsky.social @bmj.com

🎟️ In-person tickets now open: Do Not Resuscitate Forms – Who’d Have One? 👉 gres.hm/dnr-forms Join consultant and chair of Wales’ DNACPR policy, @profmarktaubert.bsky.social*, to explore DNACPR policy, end-of-life planning, scandals & tackling misinformation *@cardiffuni.bsky.social

Yet another Assisted Dying flyer in @bmj.com today, to convince us all how wonderful and choicey it will all be.

One of the worst articles I have read on assisted dying, and exemplifies why I am against the Bill currently going through parliament. Miscomprehension and oversimplified opinion on what others' lives are like to live, are rife.

@hamishhawk.bsky.social dear Hamish. Looking forward to Cardiff concert. My 8& 12 yr old love ur songs since they heard them on radio.They got us to get ur AFH album. They know loads of the lyrics. We were going to come to the gig without kids but they really want to see you. Is there an age limit?

‘My daughter didn’t get emotional like I did’: the families who go gigging together

📝 New Future Care Planning Review A new scoping review of the literature and an updated definition, published in @bmj.com By: Mala Mann, Caitlin Cahill, Stephanie Sivell, Robyn Hackett, Elin Harding, @profmarktaubert.bsky.social 📖 Read more: spcare.bmj.com/content/bmjs...

Assisted Dying Bill puts the vulnerable at risk. www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitne...

“How long has the staff been here?” Staff longevity says so much about a senior living community. This week on Comforting Closure, Angie Graham and I discuss what consistency reveals about care. Full episode Thursday: www.comfortingclosure.com/multimedia #DeathDoula #SeniorLivingSupport

Helsinki living up to expectations at #EAPC2025

Super proud to see my #NorthEast #PalliativeMedicine colleague Dr Lucy Robinson being awarded the highest winning abstract at #EAPC2025 #Finland 🏆 - and presenting her fantastic #PhD #Research from @newcastleuni.bsky.social @barbarahanratty.bsky.social

Happy to see so many people interested in #lung disease and #Inequalities - thanks for all the feedback and discussion #EAPC2025 🫁

@hamishhawk.bsky.social Hi Hamish. Thanks for the clever and catchy songs, which have accompanied us on many journeys. My son Idris is a big fan. His favourite is Big Cat Tattoos. All the best.

Episode 2 of #BBC Inside Health programme, 3-parter with @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social and @katherinesleeman.bsky.social

I am part of a BBC Inside Health mini series on #AssistedDying. With @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social and @katherinesleeman.bsky.social Part 1: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

If our experience is anything to go by- the boards don't tend to say no

Our letter in today's Observer -thank you @theguardian.com for publishing full signatory list- in response to Max Hill KC & co's letter last week on #AssistedDying theguardian.com/theobserver/...

Dear @theguardian.com Why have you culled 33 signatories from our letter in today's Observer? Mainly medics, responding to last week's full signatory letter on #AssistedDying? www.theguardian.com/theobserver/...

Really important editorial on predicting survival, prognosis and the current #AssistedDying law

A former member of a euthanasia review board in the Netherlands speaks out about #AssistedDying www.spectator.co.uk/article/on-a...

Sir James Munby, former head of the Family Division of the High Court, has given his opinion on the supposedly improved Assisted Suicide Bill. His view: "it still falls lamentably short of providing adequate safeguards". transparencyproject.org.uk/assisted-dyi...

So pt I’m helping applied for “assisted dying” (VAD) & had 1st assessment before seeing Palliative Care last week! Continued thru VAD process BUT now symptoms well controlled as I was asked to do. Family have come from afar. Due to die Friday…🥺 @profmarktaubert.bsky.social @doctoroxford.bsky.social

@profmarktaubert.bsky.social On assisted dying and the extreme underdiagnosis of the abuse of older persons @kimleadbeatermp.bsky.social @patients

Usage of the word "Eugenics" over time.

Huge issues in Germany with lack of Oversight and clinicians and MDTs paying scant attention even when concerns raises. Evidence about negative consequences sequences in other jurisdictions has not been sought. This Bill in its current form lacks safeguards

We held an MDT yesterday to discuss multiple issues with multiple viewpoints. But there is ZERO evidence for single issue MDTs staffed with professionals who will have been employed due to a pro- #AssistedDying stance. Unsafe.

I don't usually quote the Sun, but they have now joined the Times in coming out against the dreadful #AssistedDying bill

Je suis honoré de prendre la parole à la conférence nationale ACP à Paris ce vendredi (SFAP). 🇫🇷 Parlons du ACP et du Future Care Planning en Pays de Galles 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Programme: lnkd.in/ewXgH_tJ

Assisted Dying: If the aim of the Committee stage is - as has been repeatedly claimed - to ensure that the UK ends up with the safest possible legislation, then how is the bias inherent in this witness list possibly conducive to that end?

Assisted Dying: am reading a lot of “I am for it in principle, but not this Bill” over last few days. My Radio 4 Today head-to-head and my concerns about some of the safety aspects on patients self-administering lethal drugs. From 52:33 onwards: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

We wrote about the potential of large language models, transformers & AI in specialties like palliative care. Doctor: "PallAI, please convert oral Oxycodone 40 mg BD to an Alfentanil driver, pt with an eGFR of 23!" And lots more spcare.bmj.com/content/15/1...

This is before the inevitably worrying gender dynamics in assisted dying decisions... "The Hidden Gender Gap in End-of-Life Care: Why Women and Men Experience Death Differently" femtechinsider.com/the-hidden-g...

Wonder if scurryfunging also applies to when hospitals receive royal or governmental visits and everything works for 3 or 4 hours...

Invitation: If you are a UK-based researcher, or clinician conducting palliative care research, please complete our brief survey to help funders understand what is needed to sustain and grow palliative care research in the UK. Now open until 12.1.25: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/...

An article for @newsweek.com about palliative care, ordinary dying and underfunding across the UK www.newsweek.com/i-witnessed-...

From Canada #AssistedDying and discrimination driven deaths. An analysis of the data blogs.bmj.com/spcare/2024/...

“I now view euthanasia and assisted suicide as introducing a new risk to my patients: the risk of wrongful, premature death” Excellent blog from a family doctor in Canada who primarily serves marginalized communities. She outlines multiple examples of death via MAiD that were questionable (at best)

Just 16 MPs attend debate on disability rights, days after hundreds vote for assisted suicide And they want to be trusted by those most vulnerable #AssistedDying #AssistedSuicide #UNIDPD www.disabilitynewsservice.com/just-16-mps-...

If you are going to be an ophthalmologist, be more like @glaucomflecken.bsky.social and less like Bashar al Assad

Well done Amy Prentice, @EdwardOBrian1 and the palliative care paramedics of Welsh Wish ambulance www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Discrimination & #AssistedDying: Those opting for Track 2 #AssistedDying were less likely to list an immediate family member as their next of kin, often naming a friend, lawyer, or healthcare provider instead, underscoring a significant lack of social support. blogs.bmj.com/spcare/2024/...

Privilege to be part of this ITV documentary called Death By Design, available on ITVx www.itv.com/watch/news/w...

How to cope with an increasingly turbulent world? Currently, I'm cuddling with Mabel & avoiding reality entirely.

Our letter in the Times today about the #AssistedDying debate in the Commons and ordinary dying.

We need to talk about palliative care www.bbc.com/news/article...

I’ll be joining @krishgm.bsky.social tonight at 7pm on C4 News to discuss today’s historic vote 👇

Sharing knowledge from our Digital Legacy, Design & Technology Network Research in @mariecurieuk.bsky.social Hospice Liverpool directly supports our inpatient services & informs national policy & practice. @sarah-stan.bsky.social @jamesnorris.bsky.social @profmarktaubert.bsky.social #hapc #hpm

🧵 Whatever your views on assisted dying, I always assumed we’d all agree that the topic is ethically fraught & complex. Not so Matthew Parris. For him, it’s simple. Earlier this year, he argued that old & frail people *should* be killed - to save society the cost of looking after them. 1/n

Germany's hard lessons with regard to #AssistedDying My article in @thespectator1828.bsky.social