Tag Archive for: GMC
The Ethical Care Decision-Making Record – a cautiously optimistic response
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP), together with the General Medical Council (GMC), have just released…
Scottish Government muddles sex and gender – and plans to legalise the confusion
The Scottish Government is consulting on a plan to make the existing process to obtain legal recognition…
Supreme Court rules that doctors can remove food and fluids from patients with permanent vegetative state, without going to court
My Radio Four Today programme interview on this case is here, and my interview with BBC Radio Five Live…
Healthcare apps: helpful or harmful?
From finding a carpark to counting our calories, apps now cover virtually every area of our lives, including…
At least 67 doctors have clearly broken the abortion law but not one has been prosecuted
The General Medical Council has admitted in a Freedom of Information release that 67 doctors are…
Abortion and conscientious objection – My letter to the General Medical Council and their reply
On 21 June this year I wrote to Mr Niall Dickson, Chief Executive of the General Medical Council, to…
Outrage over failure to prosecute doctors for sex selection abortions reaches new heights
It has not been an easy two weeks for Keir Starmer (pictured), the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
When…
My letter to the General Medical Council over its guidance to doctors on conscientious objection to abortion
When two Glasgow midwives won the right to opt out of supervising abortions last April I suggested…
Government drags its feet over investigating doctors who pre-signed abortion forms
Last July I blogged about the 14 NHS abortion clinics which according to reports by the Care Quality…
GMC and RCM must now move urgently to review their abortion guidance in light of Glasgow midwives court ruling
Two Roman Catholic midwives have today won a landmark legal battle to avoid taking any part in abortion…