Matt Hancock Reappears – Unrepentant, Forging Ahead with His Vision of Assisted Dying

Matt Hancock Reappears – Unrepentant, Forging Ahead with His Vision of Assisted Dying – UKColumnNews

Thu 9:20 pm +00:00, 2 May 2024

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Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-1st-may-2024
– The Independent: What would Dignitas assisted dying law mean for relatives?
– Matt Hancock (on X):
“For 50 years we’ve had a legal choice over who to love, for a decade we’ve had a legal choice over who we can marry. The time has come for Parliament to vote on changing the law to allow assisted dying, to help prevent terminally ill people from suffering very painful deaths.”
– Rustler (on X):
“You were responsible for a live trial of this back in Spring 2020, when the UK had 50,000 excess deaths during lockdown. Caused not by ‘Covid’ but by the Covid response and treatment protocols. DNR. NG163. Midazolam #Malfeasance”
– Right To Life (2022): Matt Hancock to make documentary on assisted suicide
– Care Not Killing: About Care Not Killing
– Evening Standard (2021): Matt Hancock calls for more data on end-of-life care and assisted dying
– Dying Well: The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dying Well promotes access to excellent care at the end of life and stands against the legalisation of assisted suicide
“Matt Hancock has endorsed the idea of setting up a “What Works” centre to gather evidence on the quality of palliative care in the UK and inform debate around assisted dying.”
– What Works Wellbeing: Centres: A What Works Centre is a bridge between knowledge and action
– GOV.UK: Policy paper: The What Works Network Strategy
– UK Gov Publishing Service (2023): What Works Network Strategy: Evaluation Task Force (PDF)
– UnHerd (2022): Matt Hancock is wrong about euthanasia
– Matt Hancock (on X):
“Fantastic to see personalised cancer treatment available on the NHS—using the mRNA vaccine technology that saved so many lives during Covid. I hope one day we will look back and say this moment was a turning point in the battle against cancer.“
– BBC: British man tests first personalised melanoma vaccine
– BBC (2020): Assisted dying travel allowed during lockdown, says Hancock