Doctor Mike Blabin tells the BBC the sector is desperately underfunded despite facing huge demand.
The state of end-of-life care needs needs to be "fixed" before considering legalising assisted dying, a palliative care specialist has said.However, Dr Mike Blaber, a consultant in palliative care at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, said end-of-life care needed "urgent attention".
" is not a case of expanding choice, because the choice of having excellent palliative care does not exist at the moment, that needs to be fixed before we do anything else," Dr Blaber said. Dr Blaber is against moves to legalise assisted dying, and said, if a new law was passed, vulnerable patients without access to good quality palliative care could feel pressure to end their lives.
Its CEO Elinor Eustace said sustainable funding was a "must" in order to accommodate everyone in need of end-of-life care.
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