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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Richard Wheeler

MP: Fund hospices and palliative care properly before legalising assisted dying

Labour MP Marsha de Cordova (Aaron Chown/PA) - (PA Archive)

Hospices and palliative care should be funded “properly” before steps are taken to legalise assisted dying, according to the Church of England’s Commons representative.

Labour MP Marsha de Cordova also said there is “considerable concern” that the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill could “divert much-needed” funds from frontline care.

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