Hospice boss warns patients may feel forced to choose fully funded assisted suicide over cash-strapped palliative care

Hospice boss warns patients may feel forced to choose fully funded assisted suicide over cash-strapped palliative care

A senior palliative care boss has warned that patients could be pushed towards an assisted death if assisted suicide services end up better funded than hospices. Following the Third Reading of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, Toby Porter, the chief executive of Hospice UK, which represents more than 200 hospices, said Keir Starmer’s insistence that he would find the money to fund an assisted suicide service could leave hospices unde…

English hospices may soon be forced to close before of euthanasia law

The Catholic Bishops of England and Wales have warned that the future of Catholic care homes and hospices is in doubt if the assisted suicide legislation currently before parliament is passed because they may be forced to comply with its provisions, thereby totally violating their own ethos. The warning came following the recent passage of the End of Life Bill by the House of Commons. The Bill provides no protections for institutional conscience…