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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Aine Fox

Terminally ill criticise longer four-year timeframe for assisted dying service

Proponents and opponents of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill demonstrating outside Westminster last year (Stefan Rousseau/PA) - (PA Wire)

A potential four-year wait for an assisted dying service to be up and running if a law passes in England and Wales has been branded “unreasonable” by campaigners as terminally ill people said they need “dignity, not delays”.

The maximum time by which all parts of a new assisted dying law would have to come into force if a Bill being considered at Westminster is approved has been doubled after a committee voted in favour of extending the timeframe.

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