Prof Mark Taubert

10 years on from his death and the strange events that followed. #BowieForever RIP ⚡
time.com/4184257/davi...

We're in the Christmas BMJ this year! Reflecting on and weighing up the British National Formulary! #BMJChristmas @auralapothecary.pharmsky.app
@velindrecc.bsky.social @vcclibrary.bsky.social @bmj.com

🎟️ In-person tickets now open: Do Not Resuscitate Forms – Who’d Have One?

👉 gres.hm/dnr-forms

Join consultant and chair of Wales’ DNACPR policy, @profmarktaubert.bsky.social*, to explore DNACPR policy, end-of-life planning, scandals & tackling misinformation

*@cardiffuni.bsky.social

Yet another Assisted Dying flyer in
@bmj.com
today, to convince us all how wonderful and choicey it will all be.

One of the worst articles I have read on assisted dying, and exemplifies why I am against the Bill currently going through parliament. Miscomprehension and oversimplified opinion on what others' lives are like to live, are rife.

@hamishhawk.bsky.social dear Hamish. Looking forward to Cardiff concert. My 8& 12 yr old love ur songs since they heard them on radio.They got us to get ur AFH album. They know loads of the lyrics. We were going to come to the gig without kids but they really want to see you. Is there an age limit?

‘My daughter didn’t get emotional like I did’: the families who go gigging together Concerts are now full of multigenerational fans who grew up on the music as a family. Whether Billie Eilish or Stevie Wonder, they explain the appeal

‘My daughter didn’t get emotional like I did’: the families who go gigging together

📝 New Future Care Planning Review

A new scoping review of the literature and an updated definition, published in @bmj.com

By: Mala Mann, Caitlin Cahill, Stephanie Sivell, Robyn Hackett, Elin Harding, @profmarktaubert.bsky.social

📖 Read more: spcare.bmj.com/content/bmjs...

I’m a palliative care doctor – the new assisted dying Bill puts the vulnerable at risk If clinicians start approaching assisted dying as a possible solution for patients, will they assume ‘doctor knows best’ and go ahead?

Assisted Dying Bill puts the vulnerable at risk. www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitne...

“How long has the staff been here?” Staff longevity says so much about a senior living community. This week on Comforting Closure, Angie Graham and I discuss what consistency reveals about care.
Full episode Thursday: www.comfortingclosure.com/multimedia

#DeathDoula #SeniorLivingSupport

Helsinki living up to expectations at #EAPC2025

Super proud to see my #NorthEast #PalliativeMedicine colleague Dr Lucy Robinson being awarded the highest winning abstract at #EAPC2025 #Finland 🏆 - and presenting her fantastic #PhD #Research from @newcastleuni.bsky.social
@barbarahanratty.bsky.social

Happy to see so many people interested in #lung disease and #Inequalities - thanks for all the feedback and discussion #EAPC2025 🫁

@hamishhawk.bsky.social Hi Hamish. Thanks for the clever and catchy songs, which have accompanied us on many journeys. My son Idris is a big fan. His favourite is Big Cat Tattoos. All the best.

Episode 2 of #BBC Inside Health programme, 3-parter with @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social and
@katherinesleeman.bsky.social

Inside Health - Assisted dying: Who’s eligible under the proposed bill? - BBC Sounds In the first of our mini-series we discuss who could get an assisted death under the rules

I am part of a BBC Inside Health mini series on #AssistedDying.
With @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social and @katherinesleeman.bsky.social
Part 1:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

If our experience is anything to go by- the boards don't tend to say no

Our letter in today's Observer -thank you @theguardian.com for publishing full signatory list- in response to Max Hill KC
& co's letter last week on #AssistedDying
theguardian.com/theobserver/...

The letter we were responding to with its plush list of signatories from the law profession

Are our ‘lost boys’ really being failed? While sexist attitudes do harm outcomes, the ‘reverse gender gap’ is being weaponised against women

Dear @theguardian.com Why have you culled 33 signatories from our letter in today's Observer? Mainly medics, responding to last week's full signatory letter on #AssistedDying? www.theguardian.com/theobserver/...

Really important editorial on predicting survival, prognosis and the current #AssistedDying law

A former member of a euthanasia review board in the Netherlands speaks out about #AssistedDying
www.spectator.co.uk/article/on-a...

ASSISTED DYING : WHAT ROLE FOR THE TRIBUNAL? THOUGHTS ON THE LATEST PROPOSALS This is a guest post by Sir James Munby, and it follows on from earlier posts about the proposed Assisted Dying reforms here, here and here. In Assisted

Sir James Munby, former head of the Family Division of the High Court, has given his opinion on the supposedly improved Assisted Suicide Bill. His view: "it still falls lamentably short of providing adequate safeguards". transparencyproject.org.uk/assisted-dyi...

So pt I’m helping applied for “assisted dying” (VAD) & had 1st assessment before seeing Palliative Care last week! Continued thru VAD process BUT now symptoms well controlled as I was asked to do. Family have come from afar. Due to die Friday…🥺
@profmarktaubert.bsky.social
@doctoroxford.bsky.social

@profmarktaubert.bsky.social

On assisted dying and the extreme underdiagnosis of the abuse of older persons

@kimleadbeatermp.bsky.social @patients

Usage of the word "Eugenics" over time.

Huge issues in Germany with lack of Oversight and clinicians and MDTs paying scant attention even when concerns raises. Evidence about negative consequences sequences in other jurisdictions has not been sought. This Bill in its current form lacks safeguards

We held an MDT yesterday to discuss multiple issues with multiple viewpoints. But there is ZERO evidence for single issue MDTs staffed with professionals who will have been employed due to a pro- #AssistedDying stance. Unsafe.

I don't usually quote the Sun, but they have now joined the Times in coming out against the dreadful #AssistedDying bill