VIDEO – GMC Consultation on Personal Beliefs and Medical Practice

Dr Mary Neal

The GMC is consulting on new draft guidance about personal beliefs and medicine. This includes changes to their guidance on conscientious objection.

How could these changes impact medical professionals who would not wish to participate in assisted suicide should this ever be legalised in the UK?

Footnotes

Dr Mary Neal, Reader in Law at Strathclyde University joins Dr Gillian Wright and other healthcare professionals to discuss the implications of proposed changes to GMC guidance on personal beliefs and conscientious objection. What would the implications of these changes be should assisted suicide ever be legalised in the UK?