Dr Stuart Flanagan

NHS Consultant HIV/Hepatitis/GUM @MMC_cnwl | Hon. Assoc. Prof @UCL | @BritishHIVAssoc Guidelines Subcommittee Chair | @NHSEnglandLDN Hep B Group | Views my own

[Dr Stuart Flanagan @Dr_Stuart]

A great way to celebrate #NHS75 is to welcome the first #NHS #HepatitisB Peer Support worker! 👋🏻

Our wonderful new @CNWLNHS colleague Joy Ko will be supporting people living with Hep B along their journey from diagnosis to recovery.

So excited Joy is joining us @MMC_cnwl 😀

[Dr Stuart Flanagan @Dr_Stuart]

@damianjones1 @oasis @paulradmulls Noel premiering Talk Tonight and Liam hanging out with us on the balcony at Maida Vale studios! 😎🎸

[Dr Stuart Flanagan @Dr_Stuart]

Agree with you @DocSteve that expanded ED Testing so important in diagnosing people with #HepatitisB The @LiverTrust ‘s excellent report “Break The Silence” is a roadmap to better designed pathways & care https://t.co/hzWmHpAuuY

[Dr Steve Taylor @DocSteveTaylor]

@MichelePaduano @ITVCentral @vickisiddons @uhbtrust @rachel_webster @peers_positive @BritishHIVAssoc @BASHH_UK @IAmBirmingham @THTorguk @NAT_AIDS_Trust @ejaf @ProfKevinFenton @dameyveb @healthybrum @andy4wm Indeed I predict the numbers of #HepatitisB diagnoses are going to increase +++ when we start testing in @uhbtrust Heartlands Hospital Emergency Department

I think
@aelsharkawy75 @Dr_Stuart @pippa_matt would agree?

[British Liver Trust @LiverTrust]

We've delighted to be in Westminster tonight, launching our new report "Hepatitis B: Break the Silence" with MPs at parliament.

We're speaking with MPs about how to best work towards the @WHO's ambition to eliminate #hepatitisB in the UK by 2030.

Read the report: https://t.co/ZYIA4Ux8HG

[Prof. Mark Taubert @ProfMarkTaubert]

"These patterns suggest that #AssistedDying may exploit systemic neglect, particularly at the intersections of gender, poverty & isolation, and may better be described as structural coercion to die—essentially the opposite of autonomy."

[Prof Katherine Sleeman @kesleeman]

Devil in the detail of the assisted dying Bill.

Letters in The Times, including one from me and 14 other palliative care specialists.

@Dr_N_Wiggins @drkathrynmannix @doctor_oxford @pollyedmonds @CarolUHS @SBajwah @ProfMarkTaubert @BakerIdris @drol007 @bathmatt

[Linda Maddaford @prairieparkland]

@ProfMarkTaubert @doctor_oxford I have attended. It is holy ground. There are deep, unspoken emotions for the one preparing to leave. Deep lessons for the ones that remain.
Dying was the sacred part of living. It still is.

[Linda Maddaford @prairieparkland]

@ProfMarkTaubert @doctor_oxford The age old custom of sitting with the dying confirms that suffering differs; emotionally, spiritually, and physically. Accompanying the dying soothes the first two. Palliative care soothes the third.

Myths abound to justify euthanizing the vulnerable. We can do better.

[Dr Stuart Flanagan @Dr_Stuart]

Dear @Keir_Starmer #AssistedDying would mark a fundamental shift to the patient-doctor relationship and diminish the shared humanity of us all.
Every life has value.
Stand for Justice and for the vulnerable.
Vote against the bill today.

[Dr Stuart Flanagan @Dr_Stuart]

Dear @Keir_Starmer:
the #assisteddying bill promises choice, but offers only coercion, anxiety and fear.

It would be a fundamental shift in the Patient-Doctor relationship.

Make good your promise to the electorate - more investment in palliative and social care services.

[Dr Stuart Flanagan @Dr_Stuart]

@JonnyBlackwell @BBCNews Jonny, thank you so much to your parents for sharing their story and their beautiful life of love & devotion at this important moment for us all ❤️

[Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z]

I don't want anyone to say, a decade down the line, that they were not warned, that they did not know this would happen, if this bill passes.

[Dr Stuart Flanagan @Dr_Stuart]

A very thoughtful and considered approach to making such a momentous decision on the #AssistedDying Bill. Thank you @CalumMillerLD for listening to others as well as reflecting on & sharing your personal experience.

[Calum Miller @CalumMillerLD]

Hundreds of constituents have written to me, expressing their views on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.

I’ve written to them to explain the reasons for my voting decision:

[Matthew Hazell @M_P_Hazell]

This is ludicrously idiotic. Her bill itself, in sections 24(3) and 29(2) respectively, changes the Suicide Act (1961) and Births and Deaths Registration Act (1953), and in section 29(1) also changes the interpretation of certain parts of the Coroners and Justice Act (2009)!

[louis appleby @ProfLAppleby]

Proponents of AD point to the limited scope of the Bill: terminal illness.

But once the principle behind suicide prevention has been set aside, once any part of the ground has been ceded - not only to allow suicide but to assist it - we have lost something we may not get back.

[Liz "blue tick" Carr @thelizcarr]

The oldest trick in the book by politicians who want to legalise assisted suicide is to discredit opposition as being religious

Opposition increasingly comes from all directions including 350+ disability rights organisation in the UK - & not one is religious.

#AssistUsToLive

[Dr Stuart Flanagan @Dr_Stuart]

@tristanjbarber @kimleadbeater @libertyhq The law is there to protect the vulnerable and this comes with some degree of autonomy boundaries for everyone.

[Dr Stuart Flanagan @Dr_Stuart]

@tristanjbarber @kimleadbeater @libertyhq If you are saying in your last tweet that Doctor-assisted suicide should be available for all then this is libertarian viewpoint I profoundly disagree with. Autonomy does not trump Justice but needs to be balanced with it in my view.

[Dr Stuart Flanagan @Dr_Stuart]

@tristanjbarber @kimleadbeater @libertyhq As you have probably seen many of the polls have been funded by Dignity In Dying who have sought to shape public opinion on this topic for over a decade.
Hence the euphemism of Assisted Dying rather than Assisted Suicide.

[Dr Stuart Flanagan @Dr_Stuart]

@tristanjbarber @kimleadbeater @libertyhq Thanks Tristan I also respect your views and realise how important it is to engage with them especially if almost everyone you speak with is of the same view.