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Care Not Killing
@carenotkilling.bsky.social
Campaigning for better palliative care, and against assisted suicide.
➡️ www.carenotkilling.org.uk
"The scrapping of High Court oversight for the assisted dying regime... fundamentally weakens the protections for the vulnerable... [and] creates an unaccountable quango and to claim otherwise misrepresents what is being proposed."
March 13, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Prof Louis Appleby, who chairs the government’s national suicide prevention strategy advisory group, also said he took issue with MPs who said it was offensive to call assisted dying “suicide” – saying that it was wrong to bar the use of that phrase in this context.
February 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“Not only would you be having to fund the staff from a range of professions, but you’d also have to be doing profession-specific training. This would be new to all of us.”

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www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...
Social workers too busy for assisted dying panels, Leadbeater told
Social work chiefs say the sector is ‘at capacity’ and will need more funding to meet the needs of the assisted dying Bill
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Luke Geoghegan, of the British Association of Social Workers, which represents 22,000 members, told The Telegraph: “This is not a bolt-on to existing services. This is something qualitatively different.
February 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
"Where assisted death is legal for people with mental health conditions, 67–77 per cent of those euthanised for psychiatric conditions are women."

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www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...
It’s women who will pay the price for assisted dying
Throughout history women have borne the brunt of failed healthcare policies, from lobotomy to euthanasia
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"[In committee], not only were expert witnesses proclaiming that a few mistaken deaths weren’t a significant issue, and that feeling like a burden is a legitimate reason to die, but the 'strong protections' promised in the Bill’s first draft are also melting away."
February 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"During the run-up to the vote in the House of Commons ... Leadbeater and her minions dismissed concerns from disabled people, who believe the Bill could further cheapen their lives in an ableist society that would already prefer us to go quietly into the night."
February 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"You are asking a profession that can’t fill a quarter of its consultant jobs with full-time consultants if they want to release 30 people to do this work… [I]s there sufficient capacity? It is not at all clear that there is.” Prof House

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www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...
‘Not enough psychiatrists’ to make assisted dying Bill work
Two top professors warn of staff shortages after Kim Leadbeater tables last-minute amendments
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
They also argue it contradicts Ms Leadbeater’s earlier claims that disabled people are outside the Bill’s “scope”.

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www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
Mentally ill people may be able to access assisted dying if they have six months to live
Kim Leadbeater proposes amendment to include people with terminal mental disorders in Bill’s ‘scope’ if other criteria are met
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Campaigners and MPs who oppose the Bill warn the change would not only enable anorexia sufferers to access assisted dying but also fail to protect people whose mental illnesses cause self-neglect and low mood.
February 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM