‘Palliative and social care must be fixed before assisted dying debate’
Andy Burnham has said that the debate on assisted dying shouldn’t happen until palliative and social care are improved. Speaking to Sky News reporter Sam Coates after delivering a speech on adult social care in England, he said: I take the view that that debate, and I don’t say that there shouldn’t be a debate at some point about those issues, personally I think there’s something that needs to happen first, and that’s the fixing of the funding of palliative care and social care. I think it is very challenging to introduce that wider debate in a context of people not…

