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Articles tagged with: terminal illness
Parents and doctors deserve better - Charlie’s Law deserves our full support
Health
By Emma Hardy MP
Parents and doctors deserve better - Charlie’s Law deserves our full support
The current system is letting families down. I tabled Charlie’s Law as an amendment to the Health and Care Bill, as I knew it was a vehicle for positive change for both parents and doctors.
The Health and Care Bill must support parents of critically ill children
Health
By Emma Hardy MP
The Health and Care Bill must support parents of critically ill children
The government is moving once in a generation health and social care reforms through Parliament. It is essential that the rights of parents are not forgotten, and there is legislation to support them and clinicians when deciding about treatment options for their critically ill children. The amendment I tabled, widely known as Charlie’s Law, aims to achieve just that.
If we’re serious about protecting vulnerable people, we need a new assisted dying law
Health
By Baroness Meacher
If we’re serious about protecting vulnerable people, we need a new assisted dying law
The purpose of my Assisted Dying Bill, which will be debated at Second Reading tomorrow, is to give dying adults a safeguarded choice to control the timing and manner of their imminent death.
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Health
By Dignity in Dying
Hundreds of terminally ill Brits take their own lives in UK each year, latest estimates suggest
Rising Energy Costs Will 'Hasten The Death' Of Terminally Ill People, Government Warned
Health
Rising Energy Costs Will "Hasten The Death" Of Terminally Ill People, Government Warned
Leading hospice charity Marie Curie has warned a rise in energy costs will push terminally ill people into fuel poverty during the winter months.
Government must expand support for terminally ill people facing the scourge of fuel poverty
Energy
By Mark Jackson
Government must expand support for terminally ill people facing the scourge of fuel poverty
The energy price cap increase will hit terminally ill people, not just in their pockets, but by robbing them of time with their loved ones.
Benefit Rules For Terminally Ill People Could Face 'Unacceptable' New Delays
Health
Benefit Rules For Terminally Ill People Could Face "Unacceptable" New Delays
Suggestions that DWP Secretary Thérèse Coffey could delay reforms to benefit rules for terminally ill people yet again have been roundly condemned by medical charities.
Fully Paralysed Terminally Ill Patients Still Face 'Inhumane' Benefits Process Almost Two Years After Promised Review
Health
Fully Paralysed Terminally Ill Patients Still Face "Inhumane" Benefits Process Almost Two Years After Promised Review
Excl: Ministers are facing demands to urgently publish a review of the "barbaric" benefits programme first announced by the government in summer 2019.
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By Dignity in Dying
Cross-party group on end-of-life choice welcomes Health Secretary’s request for more data on suicides by terminally ill people and impact of assisted dying ban