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New GMC guidance launched on end of life treatment and care

New GMC guidance launched on end of life treatment and care The GMC has launched new guidance for doctors on end of life decision making. Treatment and care towards the end of life: good practice in decision making. comes into effect on 1 July 2010 and replaces the booklet Withholding and withdrawing life-prolonging treatments: Good practice in decision-making (2002). www.gmc-uk.org/end_of_life_care

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Consensus statement on core competencies for clinical ethics committees

The UK Clinical Ethics Network have developed a consensus statement on core competencies for clinical ethics committees. The statement can be used by individual CECs to inform the development of an education and training programme for its members. The Network is currently looking at ways to develop a curriculum linked to the core competencies set out in this document.The paper is avialable at:-http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/rcop/cm/2010/00000010/00000001/art00009

Ethics Decision-Making Tools

New Educational material for Clinical Ethics Committees

UK Clinical Ethics Network Newsletter

Issue 23: Summer 2010

The Ethical issues section on Confidentiality, Consent and End of Life has now been updated