Health Secretary Wes Streeting has ordered a review into the costs of implementing any change in the law on assisted dying.
Mr Streeting has suggested that there may need to be cuts to other NHS services if the assisted dying bill is brought in. The Health Secretary - who plans to vote against the bill later this month - also said there was a "chilling slippery slope argument" if people felt compelled to end their own lives as a cost-saving measure.
" It came after Mr Streeting delivered a speech to the NHS Providers conference in Liverpool, said there were "choices and trade-offs", adding that "any new service comes at the expense of other competing pressures and priorities". He added: "Now that doesn't mean people should vote against it on that basis. "People need to weigh up this choice in the way that we're weighing up all these other choices at the moment.
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