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NICE - care of the dying adult (06/10/2015)
The guidance covers the clinical care of adults who are in the last few days of life, in any NHS care setting. It includes how to recognise when people are...
There are times when I wonder what exactly I'm doing as a doctor. If we think the purpose of medicine is to defeat death, the failure rate is 100% – death comes to all of us. What should we understand by health, disease and illness? And what difference does loving...
Penelope Wilcock BRF, 2013 £9.99, Pb 112pp, ISBN 9780281048779 Reviewed by Valerie Rowe, a Consultant in Palliative Care Books on 'Spiritual Care' are often theoretical but not this one. It is about people. It is intensely real as the cost of fulfilling a patient's request to 'be there' ( 'watch...
In 1998 expatriates Robin Hill and his doctor wife Joyce heard God's call to give up their comfortable Beijing life to care for abandoned Chinese infants, released to them from the official Children's Welfare Institutions (CWIs). Deemed hopeless, some had life-threatening but operable conditions. Sympathisers worldwide helped the Hills to...
Submission from Christian Medical Fellowship (and in particular members in Scotland) to the public consultation on: Palliative Care (Scotland) Bill - August 2010 (31/08/2010)
Introduction The Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) is an interdenominational organisation in the UK with over 4,000 doctor members and around 1,000 medical student members. Of these, more than 400...
BMA ARM ethics debate - report
1st July 2010:
BMA ARM 2010 – Ethics Debate 1 July The ethics debate on the last morning of the BMA's 2010 Annual Representative Meeting began 8 minutes behind time, but then ran for 54 minutes instead of the planned 40. Well chaired...
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Disability Group launches 'Resistance Campaign'
9th June 2010:
On 3 June leading disability rights group Not Dead Yet launched a 'Resistance Campaign' calling on all MPs to sign a charter pledging their support for: Providing good services for disabled and terminally ill people Opposing...
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Submission to GMC: end of life treatment and care (13/07/2009)
Text of an online submission from the Christian Medical Fellowship to the General Medical Council on End of life treatment and care: Good practice in decision making A...
This book is a palliative care textbook by Finegan, a recently deceased CMF member and palliative care physician, and McGurk, a nurse. It covers a wide range of issues pertinent to those looking after patients with cancer. There is a large section on communication skills, an A-Z overview of how...
Submission from the Christian Medical Fellowship to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics' Consultation: Dementia - ethical issues (30/07/2008)
Introduction The Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) is an interdenominational organisation with more than 4,000 British doctors as members. All are Christians who desire their professional and personal lives to be...
