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Surrogacy: asking the questions no-one wants to ask (or answer)

August 21, 2019 Written by Medical Practice , Society , Start of Life

In June, the Law Commission published a consultation document on surrogacy, which is still open for submissions. The premise of the consultation – and indeed of the Government – is that surrogacy is a positive, family-building, option but the current law is too restrictive and needs to […]

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Organ donation opt out plans in England – not nearly as clear cut as it might seem

August 8, 2018 Written by Society

All adults in England will be presumed to be organ donors unless they have explicitly opted out, the government has announced. The new plans follow a public consultation launched last December. Wales has had a similar opt-out system since 2015 and Scotland also plans to introduce one. New legislation which […]

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Happy Birthday NHS: Let’s not let a national good become a national god

July 5, 2018 Written by Events , Medical Practice , Society

Today (5 July 2018) marks seventy years since the world’s first, free-at-the-point of delivery, universal access, national healthcare system was launched. Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) has become so much a part of the fabric of British life and culture in those seven decades that […]

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Stifling Dissent

May 23, 2018 Written by Medical Practice , Society , Start of Life

Behind the statue of George Orwell, author of Animal Farm, outside Broadcasting House in London, are inscribed the words from his preface to that book: ‘If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.’ Stifling […]

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NHS crisis – the role of the extended family

February 8, 2018 Written by Society

Discontent with the current state of the NHS, and in particular with its funding, has rumbled on with marches at the weekend; yet more proposals for a ‘hypothecated NHS tax’ to raise funds (and the counter arguments); pledges that more is being given than ever before, […]