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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Jane Kirby

‘Palliative care could improve enough for assisted dying but concerns remain’

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said he believes palliative care for terminally-ill people can become good enough for that not to be a barrier to legalising assisted suicide, but he still has concerns over coercion (Lucy North/PA) - (PA Wire)

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said he believes palliative care for terminally-ill people can become good enough for that not to be a barrier to legalising assisted suicide, but he still has concerns over coercion.

The Cabinet minister – who plans to vote against the assisted dying Bill when it is debated later this month – has repeatedly expressed his view that the palliative care system is not “where it needs to be to give people a real choice”.

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