NHS
Despite the Alfie Evans disaster, Catholics can back the NHS
The NHS can make terrible mistakes. But its basic principle – healthcare provision based on need – is congruent with Church teaching
Boots pharmacy accuses abortion group of encouraging harassment of staff
Boots accused BPAS of ‘facilitation and tacit encouragement of personal abuse’
Abortion policy is stuck in the dark ages
If abortion confers no health benefit, why is it within the purview of the NHS?
New NHS prenatal test for Down’s syndrome provokes backlash from doctors
300 doctors have signed a letter objecting to the new test amid fears its introduction is ‘on economic grounds’
Becoming a doctor means always putting your patients first
Two books highlight a pair of doctors who truly recognised the privileged position they were in
The night I outran my demons
As a young doctor on a cancer ward, I consoled myself with drink and
New Age nonsense. Then one evening I stepped into a chamber of horrors
Hundreds of Catholic doctors say new guidelines repeat failures of ‘death pathway’
Catholic Medical Association says draft guidance ‘unquestionably replicates’ key failing of Liverpool Care Pathway
End-of-life care remains lethal
One of the most trenchant critics of the Liverpool Care Pathway says that new guidelines on the care of dying patients are, if anything, even worse
Liverpool Care Pathway replacement ‘is not only wrong it is dangerous’ says professor
Professor Patrick Pullicino has criticised new guidelines on end-of-life care
The premature sexualisation of our young has become a massive problem: what will the Church do about it?
Underage girls are being fitted with contraceptive implants without parental consent: this has to stop
