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GMF launches end of life treatment and care consultation
6th April 2009:
The General Medical Council on 27 March 2009 launched a consultation on new draft guidance, End of life treatment and care: Good practice in decision-making. CMF was asked to make comments on an earlier draft of the guidance and...
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Zimbabwe cholera deaths surpass 4,000
27th March 2009:
For more details of the CMF Zimbabwe Appeal, please contact CMF International Ministries or telephone 020 7234 9660 CMF Zimbabwe Appeal CMF Zimbabwe Appeal Press Release Read about the work of our partners on the ground, Celebration Health -...
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Euthanasia survey: British doctors neither do it nor want it
Texting in for the morning-after pill
25th March 2009:
The story that schoolgirls will be able to request the morning-after pill by text message to their school nurse made some front pages today. Six schools in Oxfordshire are to take part in a pilot project after a rise...
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Assisting suicide debate not reached
24th March 2009:
In planning the House of Commons' business on 23 March for the Report and Third Reading of the Coroners and Justice Bill, the government put New Clause 42 (Assisting Suicide) last. In consequence, that item was not reached and there...
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Assisted suicide threat today
23rd March 2009:
Late on Thursday 19 March we learned details of the expected last minute amendment to the clauses on assisting suicide in the government's Coroners and Justice Bill. The coalition of which CMF is just one member body, Care Not Killing,...
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Coroners and Justice Bill
17th March 2009:
CORONERS AND JUSTICE BILL What's it about? This Bill is going through Parliament at the moment and is due for Report Stage in the House of Commons on 23 and 24 March 2009. It covers a lot of things,...
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Advance care planning
12th March 2009:
In association with eight other healthcare bodies, the Clinical Standards Group of the Royal College of Physicians released in mid-February Concise guidance to good practice: Advance Care Planning . Described as 'evidence-based guidelines for clinical management' this commendably brief document...
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Rise up - a Micah Challenge: Global prayer for a better world
4th March 2009:
The G20 meet on April 2nd in London whilst we stand amidst the ruins of our global economy. The agreement reached between the heads of the 20 leading economies will begin to draw up the blueprint for a new global...
https://http://www.micahchallenge.org.uk/g20
British breakthrough with 'ethical' stem cells
3rd March 2009:
'Ethical' stem cell creation hope 1 March 'A UK and Canadian team have manipulated human skin cells to act like embryonic stem cells without using viruses - making them safer for use in humans.' BBC News
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