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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor

Doctors to speak out against changes to proposed assisted dying law in England and Wales

Kim Leadbeater smiles with assisted dying campaigners in Westminster
The assisted dying bill was proposed by the Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, centre. Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing/Getty Images

Doctors are preparing to speak out against changes to the proposed assisted dying law that could ban physicians from raising the procedures with patients.

The British Medical Association, which will give evidence to a committee of MPs scrutinising Kim Leadbeater’s private member’s bill, has said doctors must be allowed to raise assisted dying sensitively with patients if it becomes law.

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