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A de facto Government bill pretending to be a PMB. A rigged witness list. Sponsor had to be embarrassed to include disability charities and the royal college of Psychs. Two “neutral” ministers on committee who always voted with her. Open contempt for eating disorder experts, complete failure to understand mental capacity experts, promising the house the “gold standard” of a high court judge then junking it and calling it “judge plus”. A process in the bill geared to death on demand with no questions asked with the jurisdiction of the coroner ousted and no appeal from a “yes” decision from the new death panels. A complete rewrite of the NHS constitution, private providers permitted to provide suicide for profit and a threat from Kit Malthouse to defund hospices who refused to entertain this ghoul show.
And those are just the highlights from this whole ghastly process and campaign.
So far as Kim’s introspection and self reflection goes, it has the depth of a modest avoidable puddle.
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How do you know he's not? In innumerable cases of male care and healthcare staff sexually assaulting patients their victims would have been safer without their 'help'.
Even if that worker is safe, she may have good reason to fear or dislike intimate male care. Her wishes matter.
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Kit Malthouse, who threatened that non-compliant hospices could be defunded, speaks on Friday.
Recommend watching the reactions of Sarah Bool, sitting behind him – a thoughtful MP whose proposed safeguards were voted down by Malthouse and co.
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It’s absolutely dreadful that 51% of the population are not represented on the joint human rights committee.
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And this is precisely the reason single sex care is imperative. It does matter, it should matter and the progressives who think it's OK for males to administer personal care have obviously never had a relative in such a situation and witnessed the unnecessary distress. Single sex matters. We must fight for it.
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Already, after the #assistedsuicide bill has fallen, the gaslighting/rewriting of history has begun. @lkendallysi claims it was “scuppered by a tiny minority of unelected members of the House of Lords". No. It was democratically defeated in the House of Commons, where you sit.
Also, is there really “widespread and deep public support for assisted dying”? Not according to polls. In fact, support for "assisted dying" falls the more people know about it.
Assisted dying supporters vow to fight on after Commons defeat bit.ly/4riPHID
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Prof Appleby, govt adviser on prevention of suicide…
There’s a contradiction, to put it mildly, in the timing.
Sep 10, #WorldSuicidePreventionDay, when Parliament will commit to preserving life, bringing people back from despair.
Sep 11, the #AssistedDying Bill.
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No professional bodies or organisations back Lauren Edwards’ assisted dying Bill.
None.
Even those that are neutral on the principle: don’t back this Bill.
Think about it…
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Consistent with what Andy Burnham has already said re it not being the right time to do assisted dying. No strong behind-the-scenes push for it to happen like there was under Starmer and that could make a meaningful difference to its support in the Commons.
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⚡Ex-Cabinet Minister Lord Deben said Kim Leadbeater's assisted suicide Bill was the only Bill he could recall in FIFTY years in politics opposed by every representative of the disabled movement.
The same is true of the new assisted suicide Bill. No disability group supports it.
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Watch a leading palliative care doctor explain how raising assisted suicide with a patient just given a terminal diagnosis could amount to pressure, where a doctor may be unintentionally coercing them.
If the new assisted suicide Bill passes, this would be a real risk.
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Puberty Blockers and the Developing Brain
"The confident language of “safe” and “fully reversible” is not supported by the evidence.
We are administering a drug whose long-term cognitive effects have never been properly measured in children during the single most important window of their brain development.
These hormones act directly on the brain’s memory and learning circuits. Blocking the axis during puberty produces lasting, non-recovering memory deficits in the best animal model we have.
Congenital absence of the signal is associated with dramatically elevated intellectual disability, on a dose-response gradient that survives excluding the genetic confounders."
By James Linehan
A public speaker and health advocate who draws on his personal experience with congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (CHH), a DSD that can mimic puberty suppression effects.
genspect.org/not-a-story-a-d…
Dedication ⬇️ below
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Sickening
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Could it really be the end for the Westminster Assisted Dying Bill?
Pushback from royal medical colleges, disability groups, law and capacity experts, eating disorders charities, and women's groups, wasn't enough to stop the Bill. Prime ministerial chill might be.
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This evening we have written to the CEO of @NHSEngland requesting that SEEN in Health is included in the consultation on the Trans Equality Policy.
During the Faye Russell-Caldicott vs NHS England tribunal, a senior NHSE official confirmed NHSE should consult us so we expect the consultation papers to arrive imminently.
Many NHSE staff have told us privately that they do not feel safe raising concerns through internal routes or networks. They have been directly impacted by this unlawful policy for years, but currently have no safe way to contribute to the review.
Excluding us would continue the harms already experienced by women, sex realists and allies across the organisation.
We stand ready to engage at pace.
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"Genuine choice at the end of life can only be possible if people have consistent access to high-quality compassionate care."
Northern Doctors say we need assisted living not assisted suicide.
More than 140 Yorkshire doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals are calling on @HouseofCommons to reject the Bill, calling it “unsafe” @yorkshirepost says “These signatories instead want politicians to focus on improving access and investment into palliative and hospice care….” One passage reads: "Genuine choice at the end of life can only be possible if people have consistent access to high-quality compassionate care. At present, too many people do not. We are failing our society by denying them that care, and we would fail them again by offering an assisted death before ensuring that proper end-of-life care is available to all”…. “The new Chief Whip @anneliese_midge ‘s previous statements, including that the bill “doesn’t do enough to protect vulnerable people”, might signal how the Government views it this time” @andyburnham @ShabanaMahmood @wesstreeting @NazShahBfd @RachaelMaskell @MarieRimmer @AshleyDalton @MikeKaneMP @AdnanHussainMP @LindsayHoyle_MP @mayaellisuk @Live_Die_Well See yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opi…
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Good to see that @NHSEngland have finally caught up with reality. Their website now shows that sex is a mandatory item in electronic patient records. This is vital for patient safety and data accuracy.
Well done to everyone involved in pressing for this important change, especially to @VikkiKeilthy, author of the WRN report on NHS data accuracy: 'Incoherent and Unsafe' 👏
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For the love of god @YvetteCooperMP sort this mess out once and for all.
"The NHS is putting women at risk by placing them in mixed-sex accommodation, an analysis of care regulator reports has revealed, amid a record-high admission rate." 1/2 thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/a…
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Sex at birth is now a mandatory data item in the NHS core information standard standards.nhs.uk/published-s…
This is an important step forward for patient safety and care.
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The NHS is about to restart its trial of puberty blockers for gender-questioning adolescents.
The significant negative effects of these drugs on the body are well-known; they affect bone health and limit growth, for instance, and can cause hot flushes, high blood pressure and memory loss.
Psychosocial risks haven’t received similar attention, and evidence of psychosocial benefit is patchy (it appears no bigger than the placebo effect in comparable adolescents).
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