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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Jane Kirby

Allowing staff to refuse to take part in assisted dying ‘positive development’

Health Secretary Wes Streeting doing media interviews outside BBC Broadcasting House in London, after appearing on the BBC One current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (Lucy North/PA) - (PA Wire)

Allowing pharmacists and other staff to refuse to take part in assisted dying is a “positive development” but “doesn’t change my view on the Bill as a whole”, the Health Secretary has said.

Wes Streeting, who is against changing in the law to allow terminally ill people the right to choose to end their life, said MPs were taking the issue “really seriously”.

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