NEWS
- ANZSPM Trainee Day Canberra, 3 September 2013 - Registrations Now Open
- Australia's National Palliative Care Week 19-25 May 2013
- APLI Newsletter April 2013
- ANZSPM Aotearoa 2013 - Registrations Open
- Registrations Open for ANZSPM's Medical and Surgical Update for Palliative Medicine
- ANZSPM E-Update February/March 2013
- ANZSPM Founder named Senior Australian of the Year 2013
- ANZSPM NZ MEDIA RELEASE - Care and support - not Euthanasia - for those with advanced illness
- ANZSPM Palliative Care Forums 2012: Registrations Now Open
- ANZSPM NZ MEDIA RELEASE - Care for the Dying; not Euthanasia
- ANZSPM Submission to Qld Palliative Care Services Inquiry
- ANZSPM NZ MEDIA RELEASE: Excellent Hospice and Palliative Care, Not Euthanasia
- National Joint Work Program for Palliative Care in New Zealand
- ANZSPM Submission to Senate Inquiry
- ANZSPM's New Strategic Plan
ANZSPM NZ Media Release 6/5/12 - Excellent Hospice and Palliative Care, Not Euthanasia
ANZSPM Aotearoa (NZ Branch) has issued a media release in response to the New Zealand TV3 Prime Time program featuring the story 'Fixing to Die', which aired last night.
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 Position Statement on Euthanasia, and similarly the World Medial Association’s which state that euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide are unethical. This position is not dependent on euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide remaining unlawful. Even if they were to become legal, or decriminalised, the NZMA would continue to regard them as unethical.
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