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Debate: Baroness Sheila Hollins shares her hopes for the future of people with learning disabilities. This begins with a cultural shift: we stop saying we can't and instead look for positive stories to inspire us. learningdisabilitytoday.co.uk/topic/health/b…

Today, 19 May 2025, the UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights published its report on the Mental Health Bill. Our Ulele Burnham (Ulele Burnham) gave oral evidence to the committee and Oliver Lewis (Oliver Lewis) provided evidence in written submissions.

"Beyond the liberal subject: challenges in interpreting the CRPD, and the CRPD’s challenges to human rights" - Peter Barlett posing characteristically elegant and vexed questions about the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. academic.oup.com/hrlr/article/2…

A 36-year-old woman with anorexia was starving. In Colorado, that was enough to qualify for assisted death. My piece in The New Statesman asks why Parliament has not yet closed the loopholes in the #AssistedDyingBill that allow malnutrition to qualify as a terminal illness.

Another reason why the #AssistedDyingBill is not fit for purpose: it will not stop people with anorexia or people who voluntarily stop eating or drinking from “qualifying” themselves for assisted suicide. newstatesman.com/comment/2025/0…

Is assisted dying a treatment? This question is not just interesting philosophically - it has important practical implications in terms of clinical practice and law. New BMJ Opinion by Prof Gareth Owen, Prof Alex Ruck Keene and me. Free link bmj.com/cgi/content/fu…

We have raised concerns about existing deficiencies in the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. We believe the bill in its current form lacks adequate protections for patients and professionals. Full statement: ow.ly/EOhP50W692q

Royal College of Pathologists statement on the TIA / assisted dying bill. “The College cannot support clause 35 as drafted in the current version of the Bill.” rcpath.org/discover-patho…

We’ve published a new resource on self-harm, aimed at children and young people. It looks at why self-harm happens, what to do if you are self-harming, and where to get professional support. It also includes tips for parents and carers. 🖥➡️ rcpsych.ac.uk/mental-health/…?

⚠️ A coalition of 18 eating disorder charities has written to MPs urging them to vote against the assisted dying bill. They warned the bill could allow a person with anorexia to choose to die by assisted death in a moment of acute distress. thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/…

📢 More than 250 people who suffered from eating disorders sent a letter to MPs warning: ‘If this bill had been law during the years many of us were struggling, we would have used it to end our lives’ A spokesperson for Ms. Leadbeater said: “It’s an old story."

The 3rd Reading of the #AssistedDyingBill is on Friday yet it remains hugely flawed. The PMB process has been woefully inadequate. - Only 12 of 133 amendments tabled have had a vote - Just 14% of MPs have had the chance to speak on it Not good enough for such a profound change.

Six of the most misleading statements in this article: 1. KL says the bill “goes further than any in the world to ensure decisions are…free from pressure.” Not true. South Australia bars doctors from raising assisted suicide unprompted. Leadbeater has rejected that safeguard.

1/ Victoria Derbyshire asked a simple question: why did you vote against every amendment eating disorder experts urged you to pass to close the anorexia loophole? A thread on the many eating disorder experts she chose to ignore ⬇️

6/ Barrister Oliver Lewis, speaking at a parliamentary event on 23 April, confirmed the legal risk. He cautioned that without clarification the bill could allow people with anorexia to access AD — particularly if doctors are unwilling to force-feed. x.com/DrOliverLewis/…

48 hours before the vote, and this still needs explaining. Amendment 14 had almost no time for debate. Several MPs — including the Bill’s sponsor — appear unclear on what it actually does. Helpful summary from Matthew Doré, former president of the Palliative Care Congress ⬇️

The assisted dying bill is not fit for purpose - Diane Abbott and Sir Edward Leigh thetimes.com/article/a23749…

I know it’s hard to imagine someone with anorexia asking for assisted death. But please listen to the 281 of us who know this illness from the inside - who were once told we were “untreatable,” “treatment-resistant,” or, “likely to die.” We’re simply asking for basic

A must-see from the fantastic Naz Shah MP

MPs voted in favour of passing the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill for E&W to the next stage of the Parliamentary process. We are still concerned that the Bill does not currently require a holistic assessment of unmet need See our response shorturl.at/SRwr9