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Cross Party Group on Palliative Care

Audio Recording of Debate on Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

The Cross Party Group on Palliative Care met at the Scottish Parliament on March 23^rd 2010. The meeting featured a debate on assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia, with reference to the End of Life Assistance (Scotland) Bill.

The meeting was chaired by Michael McMahon MSP. Mr John Paley, Senior Lecturer at the University of Stirling, spoke first in support of physician assisted suicide. Dr Stephen Hutchison, Consultant Physician in Palliative Medicine at the Highland Hospice, spoke against physician assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia. An extended question and discussion session followed.

You can find out more information and download MP3 files of presentations and Q&A session in our cross-party group section.

Living and Dying Well - Short Life Working Group 7

As part of the work associated with Living and Dying Well, the Scottish government’s action plan for palliative and end of life care, the Partnership led a working group to report on the subject:-

Addressing palliative and end of life care from a public health and health promotion perspective: facilitating wider discussion of death, dying and bereavement across society.

A copy of the working group’s final report is now available for download: SLWG7 Final Report

Report of International Palliative Care Awareness and Training Seminar: October 2009

A meeting was held at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, on 1 October 2009 to describe and stimulate links between Scotland and other countries in palliative care. To download a report of this event click here.

NHS QIS draft COPD standards open for consultation: August 2009

NHS Quality Improvement Scotland has developed draft clinical standards for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and these are open for consultation from 31 August until 4 December 2009.  For more information and to comment on the standards, go to:
www.nhshealthquality.org/nhsqis/6527.html