Netherlands: euthanasia
In April, the Supreme Court ruled that it
was no longer necessary to reconfirm with
a dementia patient
their earlier written
request to die.
The ruling means doctors can no longer
be prosecuted for carrying out euthanasia on
dementia patients.
Lost in post?
Lord Shinkwin, a Conservative Peer asked
the government in November why they had
not answered his letter from March concerning NIPT prenatal screening.
The Secretary of State for Health had not
responded to Lord Shinkwin’s request for a
meeting with him and people with Down’s
syndrome and their representatives to discuss
concerns about
the
introduction of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT). The government gave the go ahead for the screening
to be introduced by 2018.