Wes Streeting warns there is no money in the NHS for assisted dying and helping people to end their lives will mean cuts to treatment for the living
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The Health Secretary has warned that legalising assisted dying could take NHS money away from medical treatment for the living. Wes Streeting, who opposed the suicide law change passed by MPs last week, said getting the system up and running would take 'time and money' away from other parts of the health service.He said that said better end-of-life care was needed to prevent terminally ill people feeling they had no alternative but to end their own life.MPs on Friday voted by a majority of..