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Information for the Media

Media enquiries to the Secretariat on 01489 565665 or email Sabine Tuck, Executive Administrator.

Media downloads

Click here for Press Statement from the APM "Postcode lottery in palliative care", 3rd December 2012

Click here for Press Statement from the APM about the ministerial round table meeting on the Liverpool Care Pathway (26th November), 27th November 2012

Click here for Press Statement 'Learning from people's experience of last days of life', 26th October 2012

Liverpool Care Pathway Consensus Statement, September 2012 

Click here for Press Statement in response to the British Medical Association's debate on assisted dying and palliative care provision, 28th June 2012

APM Position Statements

The APM Ethics Committee has produced a series of Position Statements on the following subjects, which may be downloaded here.

• Advance Care Planning
• Physician Assisted Suicide
• Double Effect
• Using Sedating Medication at the End of Life
• Withholding and Withdrawing

The following letter has been sent to the Daily Mail in response to an article and opinion piece they published on 25th October 2012:

Dear Editor

The claim in today's Daily Mail, that the Association for Palliative Medicine (APM) is breaking rank with the public stand of other medical bodies, is not correct. The APM is a signatory to the Consensus Statement on the Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient. Our position on this remains unchanged. The APM will be joining other organisations in continuing to improve practice.

Dr Bee Wee
President

Dr David Brooks
Vice-President

Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland