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A charitable organisation dedicated to improving, supporting and promoting education and debate in medical ethics. Co-owner of the JME and MH Journals.

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A moment for reflection in medical ethics: The House of Lords has voted to support pardoning women previously convicted under abortion laws, and to back decriminalisation. For medical ethicists and clinicians, this invites thoughtful consideration: How do legal frameworks shape clinical practice? How should medicine respond when patient care intersects with criminal liability? The relationship between law, ethics and medicine continues to evolve. #MedicalEthics #Bioethics #ReproductiveHealth #MedLaw theguardian.com/politics/2026/…
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🔬 A live public health ethics question: The University of Kent is managing a MenB outbreak. Students have been advised they can go home — raising a classic tension: individual freedom of movement vs. containment for collective protection. When does facilitating dispersal complicate prophylaxis delivery and contact tracing? Who holds moral responsibility for health outcomes across dispersed populations? No easy answers — but important ones. Where do you stand: autonomy or precautionary containment? #PublicHealthEthics #Bioethics #MedEthics #Meningitis news.sky.com/story/kent-men…
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500,000 people consented to share their health data with UK Biobank to advance medical research. That data was later exposed online. This is a case study in the gap between consent, de-identification, and real-world data security. What obligations do researchers and institutions have when access controls fail? #MedEthics #Bioethics #ResearchEthics 🔗 theguardian.com/science/2026/m…
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Assisted Dying Bill: running out of time🚨 The Assisted Dying Bill may not pass this parliamentary session — what does that mean for patients and doctors? The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is now very unlikely to complete its Lords stages in time, after the government declined to allocate additional parliamentary time. Should parliament have prioritised this — or does slowing down protect vulnerable patients? 📎 constitution-unit.com/2026/03/06/the… 💬 Do you think more parliamentary time should have been given to this bill? #AssistedDying #MedLaw #UKMedStudents
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Here is the second blog in the SLSA series on the Terminally Ill Adults Bill: Limiting the Scope of the Terminal Illness Requirement slsa.ac.uk/post/limiting-…
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J. of Medical Ethics@JME_BMJ·
📜 Relations of care are central to medical aid-in-dying decisions, but when do they support authentic end-of-life choices versus undermine them? bit.ly/3NTOOXh
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J. of Medical Ethics@JME_BMJ·
'Doing ethics with AI' We have calls for papers in your subject area. Discover the Topic Collection: bit.ly/3MjbwqZ
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J. of Medical Ethics@JME_BMJ·
📄Discover what’s new in JME Practical Bioethics! Read the journal’s inaugural articles and explore fresh insights on issues that are shaping the field bit.ly/4bGV6mW
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