🏆🏴BREAKING: VICTORY IN SCOTLAND!
In a triumph for hope over despair, life over death & support over suicide, the Scottish Parliament has voted AGAINST assisted suicide. MSPs have settled the issue for a generation & dealt a mortal blow to assisted suicide in Westminster.🧵1/
‘“Given the lack of resources for palliative care, there is an obvious risk that old people, especially those with embarrassing conditions, will try to make up for the inadequacies of the NHS by “doing the right thing”. An insightful article. https://t.co/1ZL5e2fqsj.
Dear @Sandeshgulhane, https://t.co/KUcqFcCaPe please read this from Canadian GP @rljcoelho, this choice crosses a Rubicon and will have societal consequences.
How can you say it is safe when it is not clear which regimen will be used and there are known complications in other jurisdictions?
As a GP you will be aware of RCGP Scotland’s opposition to the bill, can you recognise the risks for the profession in this legislation https://t.co/2X1nJV2vYm
The Assisted Dying Bill remains deeply flawed.
Many placed their hope in the Bill’s sponsors to improve it in the House of Lords - that has not happened.
There remain serious concerns about the impact it would have on the most vulnerable in society.
It must not go forward.
After hours of scrutiny, and no meaningful changes to the Bill accepted, experts and professional bodies have not changed their position:
The Assisted Dying Bill remains deeply flawed and unsafe.
Bill supporters blame everyone else but won’t make the Bill safe.
I don't think anyone now claims that the Assisted Dying Bill in its current form and as it was voted through at 3rd Reading in the Commons is anything but a vague and poorly drafted disaster waiting to happen.
@ChiOnwurah A number of MPs told me directly they were voting for the principle but expected the Lords to address the bill’s (many) deficits. It is unsafe and undemocratic to railroad through a dangerous bill. @DrLilyLamb@EmmaLewell@maryfoy@GlindonMary
Congratulations to our consultant gastroenterologist @kevinjmonahan 👏🏻
Mr Monahan and his team won the CSSC 1st prize at the British Society of Gastroenterology for the English National Lynch Syndrome project 🏆
You should be very proud of the work you and your team have done! 🌟
@BritSocGastro@LNWH_NHS@BowelsOfStMarks
🏆#BSGLive2025 - Award For Dr Eleanor Hackney🏆
Congrats to #ColoCohort researcher Ellie for winning the Alistair McIntyre Prize for "EmPath" - a project she co-created to empower endoscopy trainees in recognising & managing Upper GI pathology via targeted study days.
@RI_STSFT
📣#BSGLive2025 - Award for Dr Christina Dobson📣
At last week's conference in Glasgow, @StinaMary presented findings from #ColoFC (which explored socio-demographic variation in symptomatic FIT return), and received an award for Best Flash Poster.
Well done, Christina! 👏
Congratulations to @STSFT Research Fellow Dr Ellie Hackney on winning the Alistair McIntyre Prize for her 'EmPath' project presentation #BSGLive2025 👏👏
@emadelomar@ShahidaDin1@BSGTrainees@BritSocGastro Thank you so much Emad, what an honour! Congratulations to you on your lifetime achievement award and thank you for speaking in the masterclass- I’ve already had cause to use the lessons you were sharing with a refractory helicobacter case this week 😃
It’s been an honour to be BSG Senior Secretary. My 1st BSG meeting was in Glasgow and never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d be sitting on that stage hosting the meeting almost 20 years later. To all @BSGTrainees keep going, it could be you. 🙏 to everyone @BritSocGastro
That's a wrap on #BSGLIVE25 everyone! 🎉 Thank you to all our attendees, speakers, and industry partners 👏 Have a safe journey home and we look forward to seeing you all again next year for #BSGLIVE26 back in Liverpool!
Congratulations to the Sheila Sherlock Lecture recipient Prof William Rosenberg, awarded today during the ‘Liver: MASLD’ session! 🏆
Catch up on-demand tomorrow 📱
Absolute legend and totally deserved recognition of sustained work for patient and GI science. Worked with him as a colleague in Aberdeen and he is an absolute gentleman.
Well done @emadelomar truly great work