Clare Gerada has done a lot of good things since becoming Chair of Council at the RCGP: her regular e-mail updates are very good. Unfortunately her ill-judged article on assisted dying and changing the College position on the issue is unhelpful and deeply flawed.1
She makes the common mistake of giving weight to the Falconer commission. It is well recognised that the Falconer commission was a propaganda vehicle for Dignity in Dying, the pro-euthansia pressure group. The commission was chaired by Lord Falconer, a member of …