UK End‑of‑Life Policy Monitor

The 286-270 Commons rejection blocks assisted-dying reform in England and Wales for the short term, despite the bill's safeguards of two doctors plus...

Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth urges MPs to reject the assisted suicide bill, citing its lack of any conscience clause for medics who object to...

• Death projections rise sharply: Central Year 10 estimate jumps 60% to 3,502 annual assisted deaths, with high scenario reaching 6,257.
• Equality...

Philip Nitschke’s planned 5 September London demonstration of the Kairos suicide collar has triggered urgent calls for Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood...

Government equality impact assessment warns that poverty, poorer healthcare access, lower-quality care and domestic abuse could drive disproportionate...

Prime Minister Andy Burnham's refusal to back the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill represents a significant blow to campaigners seeking reform of UK assisted dying law.

• NHS Delivery Model: The Bill positions assisted dying as a fully funded NHS service with a legal right to access, yet the Health Secretary has...

One physician frames medical aid in dying as conflicting with millennia-old professional responsibility under the Hippocratic Oath, arguing that...

The Northern Territory has reinstated voluntary assisted dying by passing the Rights of the Terminally Ill Bill 2026 unanimously in the Legislative...

France's new end-of-life law shows how institutional conscience protections can be embedded without blocking patient access.

• Institutional...

Bishop John Keenan, President of Scotland’s Bishops’ Conference, has issued a pastoral letter urging Catholics to contact their MPs without delay to...

• Gag clause controversy: The Rights of the Terminally Ill bill prohibits doctors from raising voluntary assisted dying with patients, requiring...

Illinois has agreed to a temporary federal court order shielding Catholic hospitals, doctors and a Lutheran facility from its new assisted suicide law...

Keir Mather MP is holding a limited-capacity town hall in Selby on 4 September to let residents share views before the Terminally Ill Adults (End of...

Three perspectives dominate the current UK debate.

• Religious ethics: Bishop Menezes highlights threats to vulnerable groups, including disabled...

Labour MP Lauren Edwards is pushing the reintroduced UK assisted dying bill, drawing directly from Victoria's 2017 laws that allow choice for those...

Bill C-14 permits MAID for adults with a serious and incurable disease, illness, or disability across Canada, including Nunavut.

Lauren Edwards MP has revived the assisted dying bill after finishing second in the private members’ ballot, reintroducing an identical version of Kim...

Andrew Denton flags the 'devil in the detail' of the Northern Territory's Rights of the Terminally Ill Bill, introduced by Attorney-General Marie-Clare Boothby on 23 July 2026. UK legislators should scrutinise similar safeguards closely.

A new cross-sectional survey in Queensland investigates public attitudes toward doctors discussing VAD within legal boundaries, an area previously addressed mainly through ethical debate rather than empirical data.