Assisted dying: Who’s eligible under the proposed bill?
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The Terminally Ill Adults End of Life Bill is working its way through Parliament. If it became law in England and Wales it would be one of those moments in history that profoundly changes society. There are similar discussions taking place in Scotland, the Isle of Man and Jersey too. To be clear about what we’re doing on Inside Health. We’re not going to debate the rights or wrongs of assisted dying. Or go through the politics of the Bill. Instead, over the next few episodes we’re going to explore some of the issues that will come up if assisted dying goes ahead.
We’re going to start with eligibility and who could get an assisted death under the proposed rules?
To discuss we're joined by:
Katherine Sleeman - Professor of Palliative Care at King's College London David Nicholl - Consultant Neurologist at University Hospital Birmingham Mark Taubert - Consultant Palliative Medicine at NHS Wales Erica Borgstrom - Professor of Medical Anthropology at The Open University
Also in the programme we have exclusive research on the differences between men and women’s immune systems and why that affects the risks of infection and even autoimmune disease. James speaks Professor Lucy Wedderburn from the Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and Director of the Centre for Adolescent Rheumatology at University College London, and Associate Professor Dr Lizzy Rosser also from the Centre for Adolescent Rheumatology at University College London.
Presenter: James Gallagher Producers: Hannah Robins & Tom Bonnett
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| 0:53.0 | Later on Inside Health, we'll have exclusive research on the differences between men and women's immune systems |
| 0:58.6 | and why that affects the risk of infection and even autoimmune disease. |
| 1:03.7 | But first, we're going to tackle a difficult topic, giving people drugs to end their life, |
| 1:08.7 | what's known as a sister dying. |
| 1:12.7 | The terminally ill adult's end-of of life bill is working its way through Parliament. If it became law in England and Wales, |
| 1:17.4 | it would be one of those moments in history that profoundly changes society. There are similar |
| 1:23.0 | discussions taking place in Scotland, the Isle of Man and Jersey too. Now, I want to be clear about what we're |
| 1:29.5 | going to do on Inside Health. We're not going to debate the rights or wrongs of assisted dying, |
| 1:34.1 | or go through the politics of the bill. Instead, of the next few episodes, we're going to explore |
| 1:39.7 | some of the issues that will come up if assisted dying goes ahead. And we're going to start |
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