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Inequity in palliative care services highlighted
Wednesday, 10 April 2019, 12:31 pm | Australian and NZ Society of Palliative Medicine
The Australian and New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine (ANZSPM) welcomes yesterday’s report of the New Zealand Parliament’s Justice Committee on the End of Life Choice Bill and the Committee’s decision that it was unable to agree that the Bill be ... More >>
Palliative Care Doctors welcome report on ‘Assisted Dying’
Monday, 7 August 2017, 1:07 pm | Australian and NZ Society of Palliative Medicine
The Australian and New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine (ANZSPM) Aotearoa Branch has welcomed the report from the NZ Health Select Committee investigating the attitudes of New Zealanders to ‘assisted dying’ as well-written and balanced. ANZSPM is ... More >>
Euthanasia outside the discipline of Palliative Medicine
Monday, 17 September 2012, 5:57 pm | Australian and NZ Society of Palliative Medicine
The TV1, 7pm news programme on Sunday 16th September 2012 described the tragic story of Rosie’s death, a person with multiple sclerosis. As a society of Palliative Medicine doctors we care for patients with advanced multiple sclerosis as well as ... More >>
Care for the dying; not euthanasia
Friday, 24 August 2012, 10:56 am | Australian and NZ Society of Palliative Medicine
The Australian and New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine Inc. (ANZSPM) is appalled at Prime Minister Key’s claim that ‘there’s a lot of euthanasia that effectively happens in our hospitals’. Palliative care teams in hospitals and hospices provide ... More >>
Care for the dying; not euthanasia
Thursday, 23 August 2012, 4:34 pm | Australian and NZ Society of Palliative Medicine
The Australian and New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine Inc. (ANZSPM) is appalled at Prime Minister Key’s claim that ‘there’s a lot of euthanasia that effectively happens in our hospitals’. Palliative care teams in hospitals and hospices provide ... More >>
Australian & NZ Society of Palliative Medicine on Euthanasia
Monday, 6 August 2012, 10:12 am | Australian and NZ Society of Palliative Medicine
The Australian and New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine Inc., (ANZSPM), believes that the practice of euthanasia and assisted suicide are outside the discipline of Palliative Medicine. The Society endorses the New Zealand Medical Association’s ... More >>