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New British Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Wednesday declined to say whether he would support fresh attempts to legalise assisted dying saying social care reform was needed first.
Burnham relaunched his years-long bid to create a national service to tackle the UK’s care crisis for the elderly and vulnerable, in a speech Wednesday at a London care association.
But asked by a reporter “what’s your position on assisted dying?” Burnham replied: “Personally, I think there’s something that needs to happen first.
“That is 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 receiving that care and having the peace of mind about that care.”
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