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Malcolm Payne

Social care and social work are important in end-of-life care.

Malcolm Payne's blog focuses on developments in social care and social work that affect palliative and end-of-life care. It is part of the information work of St Christopher's Hospice, London.

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Assisted dying reaches the front page…of Private Eye

August 5th, 2009 by Malcolm Payne


All the debate about the assisted dying case in the House of Lords, which has required the Director of Public Prosecutions to come up with guidelines about who he will prosecute if they help someone die, has led to a lot of public comment. This week the satirical magazine Private Eye joins the club with ‘Assisted Dying latest’. Its front-page bubble photo has Prime Minister Gordon Brown asking a smiling Lord Mandelson: ‘Why have you booked me a holiday in Switzerland?’

And inside, a cartoon shows a scruff on a street corner holding a shot gun, next to a notice saying: ‘Assisted dying – cheap’.

But since I can’t reproduce these, another pic of the new St Christopher’s: you’ve crossed the road, approached the front door via the new sebra crossing, now you come to the new glossy reception area, all curvy light wood. Beyond, you can see one of the main aims of all the rebuilding, the welcoming new Anniversary Project centre:Reception

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