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NHS staff to be allowed to refuse to take part in assisted dying under amendment

Changes will also be made to employment law so that nobody who refuses to take part can be dismissed or face disciplinary action.

Evening Standard

NHS staff can refuse to take part in assisted dying under amendment

Changes will also be made to employment law so that nobody who refuses to take part can be dismissed or face disciplinary action.

The Independent UK

Assisted dying bill to include protection for NHS staff not wishing to take part

Employees including doctors, nurses and pharmacists will not have to give reason for refusal, Kim Leadbeater says

The Guardian - UK

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Assisted dying bill ‘will put pressure on vulnerable’ to end lives early, campaigners warn

A row has broken out over the £59.6m of healthcare cost savings identified in the government impact assessment for Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying legislation

The Independent UK

Assisted dying about ‘human cost’ not pounds and pence, MP behind Bill says

Kim Leadbeater said the Bill was ‘the most robust piece of legislation in this area in the world’.

Evening Standard

Assisted dying: up to 12 people a day in England and Wales may use service after 10 years

Up to 4,559 people would use the service in the 10th year after its introduction, official impact assessment finds

The Guardian - UK

Hundreds might use assisted dying service in first year, analysis estimates

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill will return to the Commons on May 16.

The Independent UK

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Top KC claims assisted dying bill is not compatible with human rights convention

Exclusive: The legal opinion obtained by a campaign group opposed to assisted dying comes as the government is expected to publish its impact assessment for Kim Leadbeater’s legislation

The Independent UK

In the rush towards a law on assisted dying, the vulnerable have become expendable

Concerns that Kim Leadbeater’s proposed legislation is ‘flawed and dangerous’ are being overlooked

The Guardian - UK

Assisted dying vote delayed by three weeks to give MPs time to consider changes

Kim Leadbeater says she is ‘absolutely confident’ postponement will not delay legislation reaching royal assent

The Guardian - UK

Commons return of proposed assisted dying law delayed until May

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater said the three-week delay would give MPs more time to consider changes made to her Bill.

Evening Standard

Health Secretary still plans to oppose assisted dying Bill

The Bill returns to the House of Commons this month for further debate.

Evening Standard

Conversation on assisted dying ends if bill voted down, says MP

Kim Leadbeater tells colleagues they have duty to change law to spare terminally ill people dreadful consequences

The Guardian - UK

Assisted dying Bill process ‘thorough’ says MP as colleague brands it ‘a mess’

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill returns to the House of Commons this month for further debate.

Evening Standard

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Evening Standard

Assisted dying Bill once-in-a-lifetime chance for change, says former prosecutor

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill returns to the House of Commons this month for further debate.

Evening Standard

Assisted dying: MP says Bill process ‘rigorous’ but cardinal brands it ‘flawed’

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill returns to the House of Commons this month for further debate.

The Independent UK

Labour MP Naz Shah turns on Kim Leadbeater’s ‘fundamentally flawed’ assisted dying bill

Exclusive: Naz Shah explains why, after previously supporting the bill, she now believes it is ‘fundamentally flawed’

The Guardian - UK

Esther Rantzen’s life-preserving cancer drugs no longer working, says daughter

Terminally ill journalist and assisted dying supporter no longer healthy enough to travel to Dignitas

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The Guardian - UK

‘It became very fraught’: how assisted dying bill has changed on its way back to Commons

After nine weeks of scrutiny and 150 amendments, there are still huge unknowns over legislation for England and Wales

Evening Standard

Assisted dying law would be implemented in ‘safe and practicable’ way, says PM

A committee of MPs has finished scrutinising the Bill, which will return to the Commons next month.

The Guardian - UK

Assisted dying bill is ‘flawed and dangerous’ after changes, says group of Labour MPs

Bill, which passed committee scrutiny on Tuesday, has ‘insufficient protections’ for most vulnerable

Evening Standard

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

The new implementation period is double what was originally proposed when the Bill was published last year.

Evening Standard

Assisted dying Bill safer, says MP but ‘chaotic’ scrutiny process criticised

Changes to the Bill include a provision for assisted dying to be provided on the NHS and expert panels replacing High Court judge approval.

The Independent UK

Leadbeater acknowledges ‘upset’ as assisted dying delayed by two years

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater said she was disappointed to propose the extension but said it was “more important to do this properly than to do it quickly”

Evening Standard

NHS will become national health and assisted suicide service, says MP

Danny Kruger said the NHS would, if the Bill being considered passes into law, become the ‘national health and assisted suicide service’.

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