Four doctors last week applied to the High Court (pictured) for a judicial review of the way a survey into assisted suicide was carried out by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), their professional organisation.
It is an expensive business and the four have launched a crowd-funding campaign to help them to generate at least £40,000 so that they can go to court in confidence.
One of them, Dr Dermot Kearney, a Gateshead cardiologist and president of the Catholic Medical Association, has accused the RCP of “gerrymandering” and conducting a “rigged” survey so that traditional opposition of the college to assisted suicide – upheld by 58 per cent of members in a survey of 2014 – can be torn up.
