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The Independent UK
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Rhiannon James

Tory MP says he failed patients because he could not give them a ‘good death’

MPs gathered to hear the result of the vote on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (House of Commons/UK Parliament) - (PA Wire)

A Conservative MP has told the Commons he felt he had “failed” his patients, because he could not give them a “good death”.

“I failed because I did not give them the good death that they deserve despite the very best efforts of palliative care,” Dr Neil Shastri-Hurst said.

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