Will the NHS outsource assisted dying?

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Will the NHS outsource assisted dying?
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Ever since Labour MP Kim Leadbeater introduced her private members’ bill to legalise assisted suicide in England and Wales last November, many have characterised her plans as providing for the creation of a National Death Service. This could be interpreted either as a tongue-in-cheek indictment of the National Health Service’s lamentable state, or a more [...]Read More...

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