Prof. Mark Taubert

An article I wrote for the @guardian on the pressures of having to be overly positive - and some of the inherent dangers theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

NEW BOOK ALERT! COMING SOON DECEMBER 2025 😊🥳📓🎉 Our book on 'Technologies in Palliative Care for Older People' has made it to the @SpringerNature website. @Sarah_Stan_ @ProfMarkTaubert @JamesNorris. Coming in December 2025. More info soon! #hapc link.springer.com/book/978303204…

This autographed print celebrates #JoeRoot’s 37th Test century @homeofcricket. He made history by breaking the record for the most catches by a non-wicketkeeper in Test history. 🙌🏼✨ Only 50 available! 👀🏏 👉 uk.givergy.com/LimitedEdition… #EnglandCricket #Memorabilia @root66

Here is the evidence base for anticipatory prescribing in one place. It feels apt to share right now to show what can be done to help with effective end-of-life symptom control too! new.express.adobe.com/webpage/8yokfm… @ARC_EoE @MarieCurieEOLC @ProfMarkTaubert

My own & other clinicians' concerns re proposed Assisted Dying bill are on record: it should not command public confidence, wherever you stand on AD. It faces the risk of falling into disrepute. 55 clauses long, but 38 powers, 5 of which are Henry VIII (amend later)& 9 new…

"As members of the Lords, we take our responsibility seriously. We must and will do what is necessary to safeguard those who are most vulnerable in our midst." Thank you @DavidAltonHL politics.co.uk/comment/2025/0…

I feel increasingly politically homeless. My next lot of votes will certainly be different to my previous ones, and am hearing similar from other parts of the clinician community in Wales. Let's see what proportional representation will bring for the Senedd. @WillHayCardiff

Worth reading on how assisted dying is being promoted and normalised 🔽

If you were a fiction author writing this for a dystopian assisted dying novel, you would have to be a decent write to make this sound realistic.... DiD must be laughing their heads off..

Reassured by the promise of annual "assisted dying" reports? Washington state had those, but no more. "Due to funding cuts... a 2024 annual statistical report will not be released." #AssistedSuicide deaths will continue, though. nationalreview.com/corner/washing…

The annual assisted dying reports produced by jurisdictions like Washington and Oregon are far from adequate. But they’re better than nothing. It’s astonishing that they could be axed. Note- an amendment to the TIA Bill that specified what must be reported annually was rejected.

Use of parenteral fluids towards end of life remains one of the most polarising and misunderstood areas of palliative care. Really looking forward to the finding of the CHELsea-II study being reported later this year. Such a vital trial

RIP Ozzy. Thanks for all the joy you gave.

📣 Are you a UK professional working with people near the end of life? 💥 Help shape priorities for the new Impact Centre for Palliative and End-of-Life Care. We’re inviting health & care professionals & commissioners to complete our Stakeholder Survey👇 qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_3g…

9. Rachel Taylor told the Commons: “We’ve put safeguards into the Bill that mean there is a panel that ...will ask questions like, ‘Has your doctor persuaded you to do this?’” The panel is not obliged to ask anybody a single question. (Cl 17 (4))

So many stories like this, about the normalisation of AS. “Even after the patient agreed to a three-month period to try to improve his condition, the physician was suggesting the patient have a MAiD consult anyway. To my knowledge, the patient had never formally requested MAiD.”

I’m stage 4 cancer and thought I’d missed my chance to see @oasis #oasis then yesterday this happened!! Unreal @liamgallagher @NoelGallagher

massive cycling trip last week. esp brilliant thing was to ride with cyclists in their 60s and 70s smashing it every day. get this in GP too - older people (or course!) with busy/full/interesting lives. media is v negative on ageing (esp women). Real life offers much more. 💕🚵‍♀️

There’s an important question here. In the run up to the third reading of the assisted dying bill, who was reassuring MPs that safety concerns would be sorted out in the House of Lords?

Learning disabilities and the lack of learning past and present... 'Again and again, we are shocked by the treatment of learning-disabled people. Yet we never learn from the past' by John Harris theguardian.com/commentisfree/…