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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Hughes

Streeting: Assisted dying will take ‘time and money that is in short supply’

Health Secretary Wes Streeting (Lucy North/PA) - (PA Wire)

Wes Streeting has warned that legalising assisted dying would take “time and money” away from other parts of the health service.

The Health Secretary, who opposed the legislation in the Commons, said better end-of-life care was needed to prevent terminally ill people feeling they had no alternative but to end their own life.

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