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Regulation of Health and Social Care Professionals

On 29 January 2015 the Government accepted the large majority of the Law Commission recommendations on the regulation of health and social care professionals.  You can find links:

To the Law Commission at: http://lawcommission.justice.gov.uk/areas/Healthcare_professions.htm

To the Government response: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulation-of-health-and-social-care-professionals-response

Assisted Dying Bill 2014/15

Now that the Assisted Dying Bill has reached the Committee Stage, how should the Commons respond on Report? Should they allow the Bill to proceed and if so, should they insist on judicial oversight in addition to medical certification of the patient’s decision to die?

Sex selection & abortion

Follow opposition to the latest attempt to amend the Abortion Act 1967 at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-politics/11375279/Gender-abortion-to-be-banned-why-we-oppose.html