Regulating voluntary assisted dying practice: A policy analysis from Victoria, Australia

E Close, L Willmott, BP White - Health Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Victoria is the first state in Australia to legalise voluntary assisted dying
(elsewhere known as physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia). The Victorian law took …

Incidence, duration and cost of futile treatment in end-of-life hospital admissions to three Australian public-sector tertiary hospitals: a retrospective multicentre cohort …

HE Carter, S Winch, AG Barnett, M Parker, C Gallois… - BMJ open, 2017 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives To estimate the incidence, duration and cost of futile treatment for end-of-life
hospital admissions. Design Retrospective multicentre cohort study involving a clinical audit …

Physician attitudes to voluntary assisted dying: a scoping review

J Rutherford, L Willmott, BP White - BMJ Supportive & Palliative …, 2021 - spcare.bmj.com
Background Voluntary assisted dying (VAD) became legal in the Australian state of Victoria
on 19 June 2019 and will be legal in Western Australia from 2021. Other Australian states …

Advance care planning in Australia during the COVID‐19 outbreak: now more important than ever

C Sinclair, L Nolte, BP White… - Internal Medicine …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The novel Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) outbreak has led to rapid and profound
changes in healthcare system delivery and society more broadly. Older adults, and those …

Participating doctors' perspectives on the regulation of voluntary assisted dying in Victoria: a qualitative study

L Willmott, BP White, M Sellars… - Medical Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To investigate the perspectives of doctors involved with voluntary assisted dying
in Victoria regarding the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 (Vic) and its operation. Design …

What the doctor would prescribe: physician experiences of providing voluntary assisted dying in Australia

J Rutherford, L Willmott… - OMEGA-Journal of Death …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Like many countries where voluntary assisted dying (VAD) is legal, eligible
doctors in Victoria, Australia, have sole legal authority to provide it. Doctors' attitudes …

Palliative care and other physicians' knowledge, attitudes and practice relating to the law on withholding/withdrawing life-sustaining treatment: survey results

CM Cartwright, BP White, L Willmott… - Palliative …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: To effectively care for people who are terminally ill, including those without
decision-making capacity, palliative care physicians must know and understand the legal …

[HTML][HTML] Better regulation of end-of-life care: a call for a holistic approach

BP White, L Willmott, E Close - Journal of bioethical inquiry, 2022 - Springer
Existing regulation of end-of-life care is flawed. Problems include poorly-designed laws,
policies, ethical codes, training, and funding programs, which often are neither effective nor …

Medical practitioners' views and experiences of being involved in assisted dying in Victoria, Australia: A qualitative interview study among participating doctors

M Sellars, BP White, P Yates, L Willmott - Social Science & Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Rationale On June 19, 2019, Assisted Dying (AD) was legalized in the Australian
state of Victoria, joining a small but growing cohort of jurisdictions internationally where AD …

Does the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 (VIC) reflect its states policy goals?

BP White, K Del Villar, E Close, L Willmott - UNSWLJ, 2020 - HeinOnline
With the commencement ofthe Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 (Vic) in June 2019,
Victoria became the first Australian State to permit voluntary assisted dying. This article …