Jobbing academic clinician serving the dying; inquisitive but irritating; open to challenge; bored by cant so may not respond. I cycle, photograph & think.
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Rob George retweeted
Remarkable that this lengthy statement has not a single word to say about improving palliative and social care.
Rob George retweeted
I have posted this but it is worth posting again. Fantastic speech. #assistedsuicide "#assisteddying"
Rob George retweeted
She has confirmed what we all feared.
SHE WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY AMENDMENTS!
Responding to a question from @Simon4NDorset asking if she will accept amendments to the assisted suicide Bill, Lauren Edwards says she will not. The House were vocal in their disapproval.
Rob George retweeted
A brilliant and detailed speech from @JoshFG, who is on the Health and Social Care Committee, explaining the extent of the crisis in palliative care and the danger of the bill’s auto-commencement clause:
Rob George retweeted
Such an important point from @zubirahmed on feculent vomiting. MPs with little medical knowledge in the last debate repeatedly used examples of avoidable suffering caused by terrible end-of-life care to argue for assisted dying, without being honest re cause of that suffering.
Dr @ZubirAhmed, NHS transplant surgeon, tells the House that patients will rarely be in a state of faecal vomiting if appropriate care is given.
Supporters of this Bill want to ignore medical expertise.
Rob George retweeted
Today MPs are debating suicide prevention.
Tomorrow they will be debating suicide promotion.
Compare the two
Rob George retweeted
I'm sorry to read this about Esther Rantzen, but her health status isn't relevant to the vote today, and I don't think it speaks well of the campaign for medically-assisted suicide that this was made public on the eve of the vote.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyk…
Rob George retweeted
Very powerful speech from @AshleyDalton_MP, who has stage 4 cancer and opposes the assisted dying bill.
"I have been terrorised with tales of people vomiting up their own faeces...it is nothing short of irresponsible to scaremonger people like me into believing our deaths will be horrific when with good access to palliative care most deaths are gentle."
Rob George retweeted
Lauren Edwards MP has just made a serious and false allegation about Whitestone Insight on the floor of the House of Commons.
She appears to have conflated us with an entirely different polling company. Whitestone Insight has NOT been criticised by the British Polling Council for failing to disclose who funded our research.
Ms Edwards should retract her statement and apologise.
If an MP has such a tenuous grasp of truth and accuracy when making allegations in Parliament, why should anyone have confidence in her judgement on a matter as momentous — and irreversible — as assisted suicide?
Rob George retweeted
Times leading article: 'Even those not opposed in principle to assisted dying must surely see that the manner & means of this bunged introduction into law are irredeemably flawed'
Rob George retweeted
1/7 Sharing this new video from a study led by a world-renowned academic with extensive expertise in co-produced research with people with learning disabilities.
The researchers explored the TIA #assisteddying Bill with 21 people with learning disabilities.
This video gives a brilliant summary of brand new research from Kingston University on assisted dying and learning disability youtube.com/watch?v=CDROwZvt… #AssistedDying
Rob George retweeted
West mids MPs, please listen to your local doctors and vote against #AssistedDying . Over 70 of us have signed a letter voicing concerns of harm to our patients
@birmingham_live @bbcwm @antoniabance @SarahCoombesWB @AlexBallingerMP @CNKAlliance @nmdacosta @ExpressandStar
Rob George retweeted
This bill, if it passes, will mean the founding principles of the NHS can be changed. That is a big deal.
It will no longer just focus on getting people better - it will help them to die too.
Even those in favour of the principle of assisted dying, can surely see the issue with this fundamental change to our NHS? This is not a decision for any MP to take lightly.
MPs are not being asked only to endorse assisted dying in principle, but to force this Bill into law unchanged.
It would then automatically come into force, regardless of whether the NHS was ready with the necessary staff, training & safeguards. telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
Rob George retweeted
“Why” is the question.
Why not involve the coroner?
Why not ensure everyone asking for AD has a full psychosocial assessment and palliative care assessment?
Why not mandate in-person assessments (rather than virtual)?
Why not mandate asking the person *why they want to die*?
Why not strengthen monitoring and reporting processes?
Why not inform family by default?
Why not specify that assisted death is not a medical treatment?
Why not involve the MDT at the start?
Why?
Rob George retweeted
Some of my colleagues have been told the government will not roll out the assisted dying bill until the NHS and the Gvt is ready and it’s safe. The Bill before us on Friday makes this IMPOSSIBLE. Auto commencement in the Bill means if it passes, it happens. Ready or not.
Rob George retweeted
Supporters now seem keen on railroading through the Assisted Dying Bill because they argue it was filibustered in the House of Lords by a small group of opponents.
The only problem is, that isn’t true.
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Rob George retweeted
Parliamentary scrutiny has inarguably exposed unresolved problems in the Bill since the last time we were called upon to vote. This should be of significant concern to members across the House, irrespective of position on the principle of assisted dying. labourlist.org/2026/09/mps-w…
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The proposed assisted dying bill will be an absolute car crash if brought in, in the UK. The NHS already fails to keep elderly & disabled people safe. Why oh why would we give it the power to end life when so often cannot even safely provide basic medical care?
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