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Advance Directives And The Annual Conference Of The Bma

EDM number 1431 in 1994-95, proposed by Nicholas Winterton on 18/07/1995.

That this House notes that the publication by the British Medical Association Ethics Committee in April of the document Advance Statements About Medical Treatment, which accepts living wills as legally binding, has been met with feelings of anxiety and dismay in many sections of the medical profession; further notes that at the recent BMA Annual Conference a motion was passed declaring the document to have been inadequately discussed at all levels within the profession; expresses disappointment that the opportunity was not given to that conference to debate the many other motions of concern regarding euthanasia and the document including a composite motion tabled by the Agenda Committee for the Conference, which listed a number of anxieties including warnings that legislation might 'limit doctors' freedom to act in the best interests of patients' and that 'general refusal of all treatment is dangerous, open to abuse and incompatible with the ethical practice of medicine'; and trusts that the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health will ensure that the Lord Chancellor's Committee considering the Government's response to the flawed Law Commission Report on Mental Incapacity is made aware not only of the motion passed by the BMA Conference, but also of the other motions delegates were not enabled to debate.

This motion has been signed by a total of 19 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Nicholas Winterton18/07/1995MacclesfieldProposed
Marion Roe18/07/1995BroxbourneSigned
Ann Winterton18/07/1995CongletonSigned
Andrew Bowden18/07/1995Brighton, KemptownSigned
Joe Benton18/07/1995BootleSigned
Vivian Bendall18/07/1995Ilford NorthSigned
David Alton18/07/1995Liverpool Mossley HillSigned
Phil Gallie18/07/1995AyrSigned
Peter Fry18/07/1995WellingboroughSigned
Liz Lynne18/07/1995RochdaleSigned
Martin Smyth18/07/1995Belfast SouthSigned
Elizabeth Peacock19/07/1995Batley & SpenSigned
Norman Hogg19/07/1995Cumbernauld & KilsythSigned
Julian Brazier19/07/1995CanterburySigned
Lawrence Cunliffe19/07/1995LeighSigned
Den Dover19/07/1995ChorleySigned
Jack Thompson19/07/1995WansbeckSigned
Michael Alison16/10/1995SelbySigned
Nigel Jones25/10/1995CheltenhamSigned

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