Please note that this account is now closed, and from now on follow @CMF_Ethics for tweets about bioethics, medical ethics, advocacy and public policy issues from @UK_CMF
Changes to Guernsey's #abortion law are due to be discussed by the States of Guernsey next week. Today, Both Lives Matter - Guernsey are featured in the @GuernseyPress calling for more discussion and a proper public consultation: https://t.co/sk7hqB7oqa
The #NHS has quietly updated its guidance on treatment for transgender children. But will it make any difference? @MissJenniep looks at the changes and what they mean
https://t.co/DLdF7fAM7v
@careorguk@CConcern
#COVID19 exposes UK health inequalities - the recent PHE report on why BAME communities are disproportionately affected by the pandemic offers few answers, but exposes yet again the inequities in British society. How can Christian health workers respond?
https://t.co/n3WVXtxrEe
A new report from PHE shows that people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds are more likely to die from Covid-19. Watch TWR's @DavePiperDJ discuss this with Steve Fouch from @UK_CMF over on our YouTube channel. Make sure you subscribe too! https://t.co/OTGaXajYkW
Just in case you've not heard I've started a podcast called Matters of Life and Death with my son & journalist @tswyatt. Each episode discusses how Christians can engage with an issue of healthcare, ethics, technology, science or faith. Listen & subscribe: https://t.co/LF3BthQqaH
God, ethics and #COVID19@carisgrimes shares her experience of being asked to chair a Covid ethics committee and how her faith helped her address the challenges
https://t.co/J9JqErEzgz #ethics
Out of the mouths of children… @MissJenniep looks at recent court cases challenging guidance on #transgender children, asking if the kids have spotted that the emperor has no clothes?
https://t.co/bShHvu17Tp
#safeguarding
Facing #coronavirus ( #COVID19 ): the practicalities of critical illness and the reality of our mortality.
In our latest #blog 3 specialists look at the hard choices ahead for medics & families, & at #Christian hope in the face of death and dying
https://t.co/GDQDqItIzO
@EAUKnews
When demand outstrips supply:
A #Christian view of the #ethics of healthcare resource allocation
during the #COVID19Pandemic
'we must strive to affirm that compassion is key, all people are equal, and all are worthy of care.'
https://t.co/q1xEDnv0E8
Facing #coronavirus ( #COVID19 ): the practicalities of critical illness and the reality of our mortality
In our latest #blog 3 specialists look at the hard choices ahead for medics & families, & at #Christian hope in the face of death and dying
https://t.co/ziWYfblU4g @TWRuk
The ethics of emergencies must not become policy for peacetime.
@MissJenniep warns that while healthcare professionals are making incredibly difficult life-or-death decisions in the #COVID19 crisis, we must not turn emergency measures into the new norm
https://t.co/WroyFrG7Cg
With the RCGP and now the Royal College of Physicians making it clear that they do not support changing law on euthanasia in UK, a reminder of what is happening in Canada where their medical association did go neutral.https://t.co/y5Ba1AxXGe
Denying conscience - the Canadian experiment
With reports that doctors are being bullied into participating in #euthanasia against conscience, we ask if the UK needs to learn lessons, esp wrt to neutrality on assisted dying?
https://t.co/y5Ba1AgmOG
@careorguk@CNKAlliance
Transgender on trial - @MissJenniep in this @UK_CMF blog considers the implications on a current joint action in the UK courts https://t.co/i0qDLLmpYF @careorguk@ccon
@UK_CMF National Conference, 24-26 April, 'How long Lord? Finding hope when the storm clouds gather'. Deadline for early-bird booking rate 4 March!! #UKCMF2020 https://t.co/N4JEOPvNKy