We have already seen a huge increase in requests for legal advice about patients who are seeking an assisted death. Once passed into law there will hopefully be greater clarity on this hugely difficult and emotive area. Until then, healthcare professionals and organisations must continue to delicately tread through the current legal provisions.
Rachel Kelly and Claire Christopholus discuss issues mental health providers are facing now and horizon scan for what will need to be legally unpicked if the bill is enacted.
More on this can be found in Rachel’s article highlighting some of the mental health perspectives from the current wording of the legislation: Assisted dying – Mental health perspectives | Hill Dickinson.
