Doctors would have to raise other treatment options when discussing assisted dying with a patient, under proposals put ...

This is an audio transcript of the Political Fix podcast episode: ‘The right to die — who should have the final say?’ ...

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater tabled amendments to her bill to legalise assisted dying, which is undergoing scrutiny in Parliament ...

Kim Leadbeater has written to MPs, stressing that it is important to ‘enhance’ the proposed legislation where necessary.

Whitty is one of 50 experts set to answer questions ... the limits of assisted dying eligibility in the European Court of Human Rights. Whether it is discriminatory depends on whether the limits ...

It follows three days of evidence from various experts including England’s chief medical officer Professor Sir Chris Whitty ... as well as the human rights watchdog the Equality and Human ...

And the training and regulations around mental capacity would be crafted with the support of relevant experts and the Equality and Human Rights ... Sir Chris Whitty, told the committee that ...

Sir Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer for England ... Some supporters of the proposed change have said that MPs could look at the Human Tissue Authority (HTA) model for judging capacity.

He says it is “a hypothetic death machine in the form of a roller coaster, engineered to humanely—with elegance and euphoria—take the life of a human being ... from Jonathan Sumption to Chris Whitty.