List of Submissions
When it is felt appropriate, the Guild - usually through the Joint Ethico-Medical Committee (JE-MC) makes submissions to government and other bodies. This is usually in response to a consultation document from that body.
The Joint Ethico-Medical Committee is composed of members drawn from the two parent bodies, the Catholic Union of Great Britain and the Guild of Catholic Doctors.
Induced Abortion and Mental Health (pdf) - June 2011
Human Tissue and Embryo Bill - Sept 2007
Prolonging life in fetuses and newborn - June 2005
DoH consultation on HFEA - Nov 2005
Assisted Dying Bill - Sept 2004
Draft Mental Incapacity Bill - Sept 2003
Consent in Clinical Trials - May 2003
HFEA Sex selection - Jan 2003
Lord Chancellor - Who decides - July 2002
DOH - Medical Research - Jan 2002
GMC - Withdrawal of Treatment - July 2001
House of Lords - Cloning - May 2001
Briefing paper for MPs on cloning - Oct 2000
HGC - Antenatal screening tests - Sept 2000
Emergency contraception, sale over the counter - June 2000
Mental Incapacity - response to 'Making Decisions' - Dec 1999
Euthanasia - submission to Royal Colleges working party - Dec 1999
Cloning - submission to CMO's expert group on cloning - Oct 1999
Reform of House of Lords - May 1999
Mental Disorders and Genetics - Dec 1998
BMA - Withdrawing and Witholding Treatment - Oct 98
Lord Chancellor's Green Paper "Who Decides" on Mental Incapacity - March 98
HGAC/HFEA - Cloning March 98
RCPaed - Withdrawal of Treatment Nov 97
Scottish Office - Welfare of Incapable Adults May 97
MRC - Genes and the Mind May 97
Nuffield - Mental disorders & Genetics May 97
Law Commission - Consent in Criminal Law June 96
DOH - Xenotranplantation March 96
Scottish Law Commission Paper 151 - Incapable Adults 1996
Law Commission - Mental Incapacity (Report 231) July 95
BMA - Living Wills Oct 94
HFEA - Donated Ovarian Tissue June 94