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Scottish Government muddles sex and gender – and plans to legalise the confusion

March 2, 2020 Written by Medical Practice

The Scottish Government is consulting on a plan to make the existing process to obtain legal recognition under the Gender Recognition Act 2004 a better service for those trans and non-binary people in Scotland who wish to use it. Under the law, as it stands, […]

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Supreme Court rules that doctors can remove food and fluids from patients with permanent vegetative state, without going to court

July 30, 2018 Written by End of Life

My Radio Four Today programme interview on this case is here, and my interview with BBC Radio Five Live is here. Should doctors be able to withdraw food and fluids from severely brain-damaged people who are not imminently dying? And if so, in what circumstances? The […]

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Healthcare apps: helpful or harmful?

June 17, 2016 Written by Medical Practice , New Technologies

From finding a carpark to counting our calories, apps now cover virtually every area of our lives, including in healthcare. A 2011 General Medical Council survey showed 30% of doctors use a smartphone for medical apps. This will have increased significantly in the last five […]

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At least 67 doctors have clearly broken the abortion law but not one has been prosecuted

April 23, 2014 Written by Medical Practice , Start of Life

The General Medical Council has admitted in a Freedom of Information release that 67 doctors are known to have illegally pre-signed abortion forms and yet not one has been referred to a public hearing by a Fitness to Practise Panel, not one has been referred […]

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Abortion and conscientious objection – My letter to the General Medical Council and their reply

November 11, 2013 Written by Medical Practice , Start of Life

On 21 June this year I wrote to Mr Niall Dickson, Chief Executive of the General Medical Council, to point out that in the light of a recent court judgement, their guidance on doctors’ involvement in abortion was now out of step with the law. […]