Financial lifeline could alleviate fears end-of-life services are at risk of closure from tax hike and higher wage billsThe government is likely to offer a financial lifeline to the hospice sector amid fears end-of-life care...
Read MoreForecast indicates about 130,000 more people will need palliative care by 2048End of life care in England and Wales is unable to cope with rising demand and requires billions of pounds of new investment, palliative care doctors...
Read MoreAfter all four would-be leaders spoke against law change, both sides seek to sway waverers Supporters of an assisted dying law in England and Wales are battling to stop the issue from splitting along party political...
Read MoreLabour MP Kim Leadbeater says bill will give terminally ill adults choice and ensure stronger protections for loved ones• Too many people have been condemned to die in misery and pain. My assisted dying bill can change...
Read MoreLabour MP Kim Leadbeater says bill will give terminally ill adults choice and ensure stronger protections for loved ones• Too many people have been condemned to die in misery and pain. My assisted dying bill can change...
Read MoreLord Falconer reveals that Keir Starmer will not block Commons vote on giving terminally ill people choice of ending their livesParliament is facing a once-in-a-generation chance to hand the terminally ill a choice over ending...
Read MoreScotland could become first part of UK to offer terminally ill adults assistance to end their lives if Holyrood approves billA new bill to legalise assisted dying in Scotland has been published at Holyrood by the Scottish...
Read MoreIf law is passed Scotland would become first part of UK to offer terminally ill people assistance to end their livesUK politics – latest updatesScotland could become the first part of the UK to offer terminally ill adults...
Read MoreBill being laid before Scottish parliament could, if approved, allow people in Britain to take their own lives within the lawUK membership of Dignitas, the Swiss assisted dying association, has jumped to 1,900 people – a...
Read MoreExclusive: Assets of thousands of people in north-west England used to upgrade king’s property empire via archaic custom‘He would turn in his grave’: the dead whose assets went to King Charles’s estateHow...
Read MoreThose of working age who die are twice as likely to spend final year of life in poverty, says charityTerminally ill people are calling on the UK government to start paying their state pensions early so they can enjoy what is...
Read MoreBirkenhead peer says he changed his mind after seeing a friend die of cancer in statement read in LordsFrank Field, the former Labour MP for Birkenhead, has revealed that he is terminally ill as he backed a law that would allow...
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