Aim: Educate the next generation of clinicians, and the wider population, about the benefits of learning from your patients' lives through Palliative Medicine.
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PallMedEd retweeted
18 Dec 2025
MPs chose to impose this Bill on Wales where the situation on palliative and hospice care is even worse. @CubbageEleri points out to the New Statesman a quarter of the population does not have access to hospice beds. Where is the choice for them?
18 Dec 2025
Thanks @NewStatesman for publishing my letter and thanks to palliative care doctors like @ProfMarkTaubert for challenging the legislation
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PallMedEd retweeted
19 Dec 2025
“As a constituency MP … I heard on more than one occasion—and I wish this wasn’t the case but it’s categorically true—people speak in the most unsavoury terms about wanting family members not to be alive.”
18 Dec 2025
Baroness Luciana Berger explains why she is concerned about the proposals to change the law on assisted dying.
Luciana Berger on @PolInsideOut, brought to you by Woburn Partners, speaking to @GloriaDePiero and @JonAshworth.
Listen now.
linktr.ee/politicsinsideout
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PallMedEd retweeted
17 Dec 2025
The Health Secretary KNOWS Starmer's Bill is NOT safe. People will be "compelled to take up an assisted death" because of the state of NHS and palliative care.
He is an honest man but the Prime Minister has compelled his and every minister's silence.
🙏Josh Fenton-Glynn MP. Watch for the emphasis on 'workability' - not safety - at the end from the Permanent Secretary.
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PallMedEd retweeted
23 Oct 2025
@kesleeman @ProfMarkTaubert @IloraFinlay
Meanwhile…
“There are 13 proposed amendments to the legislation”
premier.vic.gov.au/compassio…
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PallMedEd retweeted
12 May 2025
🎉 Happy National Palliative Care Week #NPCW #PCA! 🎉
To celebrate, PCOC has asked several key members of the sector to reflect on how palliative care in Australia has evolved over the past 20 years.
@Pall_Care_Aus's CEO, Camilla Rowland provides her reflections:
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PallMedEd retweeted
14 May 2025
🎉 For National Palliative Care Week #NPCW #PCA, we reached out to a few significant members of the sector and asked them to reflect on the past 20 years of palliative care in Aus.
We received an incredibly insightful array of perspectives! Thank you to all who contributed👏
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PallMedEd retweeted
14 May 2025
🌟 During National Palliative Care Week #NPCW #PCA, it is incredibly valuable to hear the voices of patients/clients and their family and carers. 👨👩👦
Thank you again to our consumer representatives for sharing their perspective on the past 20yrs of palliative care in Aus! 👏
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PallMedEd retweeted
15 May 2025
Initiating conversations with prominent figures in the sector during National Palliative Care Week #NPCW #PCA was incredibly enlightening!
We’ve looked outward into the sector to gather perspectives, so we thought why not look inward within our PCOC team to share our insights ✨
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PallMedEd retweeted
15 May 2025
We have thoroughly enjoyed reading the diversity of reflections we gathered for National Palliative Care Week #NPCW #PCA, and we hope you have too. ☺️
For some of our final reflections, we would like to share the words of a few highly significant members of the sector...👏
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PallMedEd retweeted
16 May 2025
A key pillar of PCOC’s governance are our Chief Investigators: Distinguished Professor Patsy Yates, Professor Kirsten Auret and Professor Katy Clark!
For National Palliative Care Week #NPCW #PCA, they have all shared their thoughts on the evolution of palliative care in Aus. 🎉
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17 Apr 2025
Most RCPsych members “would not be willing to participate in an AD/AS service including determination of capacity or assessing mental disorder.”
“Bill does not address the more subtle forms of coercion such as where a person may internalise a feeling of being a burden.”
16 Apr 2025
The Royal College of Psychiatrists on the Leadbeater Bill: rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-featu…
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17 Apr 2025
Many British Geriatrics Society “members are not confident that effective legal safeguards could be developed to protect older people... the risk for safeguard failure is at least moderate in a modern, well-run AD service which we find to be unacceptable.”
bgs.org.uk/bgs-position-stat…
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PallMedEd retweeted
26 Mar 2025
The Assisted Suicide Bill Committee has finished. My final speech here. This is not the Bill the public thought they were getting. It contradicts the NHS Act and the Hippocratic Oath. It's got worse, not better, in committee.
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PallMedEd retweeted
31 Jan 2025
This is a very important clip. On how the assisted dying bill will would require us to rewrite our suicide prevention strategy, and on wider societal implications including non-assisted suicide
31 Jan 2025
The Committee VOTED to exclude psychiatrists from the process.
They didn't want to hear why mental state might matter and what a profound change this is for society's approach to suicide
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PallMedEd retweeted
22 Jan 2025
There's the cost/economic argument for #AssistedDying coming through. Last years of life most costly to healthcare, saving difficult to cost. Three studies attempted this, all indicated that AD laws can result in a substantial net reduction in healthcare costs 👇🧵
22 Jan 2025
Kit Malthouse continues to argue that dying individuals are already receiving support on the NHS and 'expensive treatments' and we shouldn't pretend that the status quo is cost free. "Not only is it costly in monetary terms...costly in terms of humanity".
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PallMedEd retweeted
21 Jan 2025
An FoI to Dept Work and Pensions reveals 1 in 5 people given 6 months to live are still alive after three years.
Not surprising to any clinician.
But pretty relevant to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life)* Bill
*aka assisted dying
21 Jan 2025
1️⃣ Patients given a prognosis of six months by their doctors are entitled to be fast-tracked onto universal credit.
But Department for Work and Pensions data obtained under FOI reveals that on average a fifth of terminally ill claimants are living much longer than expected.
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PallMedEd retweeted
30 Dec 2024
Resharing my Atlantic piece about Jimmy Carter wanting to survive long enough to vote for Kamala. Dying cannot stop our yearning to make meaning, inspire and contribute. Death is generative. Who we are never ends. theatlantic.com/health/archi…
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