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Hansard to 12 November 2026 · 31,484 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
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Charles Blanke: no photograph is held, so the academic plate is shown instead.
Academic
Charles Blanke
Professor at OHSU Knight Cancer Institute (Portland, OR, USA); expert in end-of-life care and MAiD
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Quoted in the press, across 1 topic since 16 Jun 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Charles Blanke: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Professor at OHSU Knight Cancer Institute (Portland, OR, USA); expert in end-of-life care and MAiD
- Quoted on
- Assisted dying
- Press coverage
- Quoted in the press
- Most recently quoted
- 16 Jun 2026
04 The signal · where Charles Blanke sits on assisted dying
Quoted
Quoted in the press on assisted dying.
Placed by press coverage on this topic only, not across all topics.
Dr Gordon MacdonaldSector leaderChief Executive, Care Not KillingLeading- Ruedi HabeggerSector leaderFounder of the Pegasos assisted dying clinicLeading
- Helen-Ann HartleySector leaderBishop of Newcastle, member of the LordsLeading
- Andrew HawkinsSector leaderpolling expert
- Dr Jamilla HussainClinicianNIHR Advanced Fellow / Consultant in Palliative Medicine and Senior Research Fellow, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust / Bradford Institute for Health Research
- Charles BlankeAcademicProfessor at OHSU Knight Cancer Institute (Portland, OR, USA); expert in end-of-life care and MAiD
- Fiona MackenzieSector leaderChief executive of The Other Half, MBE
- Andrew HudsonSector leaderspecialist prosecutor at the CPS
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05 On the record · press
What Charles Blanke has said
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- thelancet.com
Where Charles Blanke has been quoted
- Dying with Dignity -- time to cut the red tapethelancet.com · 16 Jun 2026
How we found the articles that name Charles Blanke: we searched news for these terms.
- assisted dying
- assisted dying bill
- assisted suicide
- terminally ill adults bill
- right to die
- euthanasia
Also searched with “assisted dying” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag. Every term for Assisted dying
Verbatim
“I think the safeguards are sufficient. There has been no slippery slope, no violation of those safeguards, no massive increase in death rates in states where it is legal.”
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