Assisted suicide services could be provided by private companies under government plans to ensure the number of requests don’t impede current efforts to bring down NHS waiting lists in the UK.
If the law change proposed by MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide Bill comes to pass, Ministers have “no in-principle objection” to outsourcing it in order to minimise the effect on existing NHS services, reportsThe Times of London.
It reports that options to contract out "assisted death" to the private sector are being considered by the Labour government in an effort to ease pressure on NHS clinics and to address the point raised by some doctors that a separate service would be needed if patients are to be assisted in ending their own lives.
