Health Secretary Wes Streeting questions affordability of setting up NHS assisted dying service
Health / Sun 22nd Jun 2025 at 01:07pm
WES Streeting has voiced doubts over whether the NHS can afford to establish an assisted dying service, after MPs passed a bill to legalise the procedure last week reports The Guardian.
The health secretary was previously a supporter of assisted dying but switched sides last year, expressing concerns about the ethics of offering such a service before significant improvements could be made to the NHS.
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Seamus
2025-06-22 14:05:46
He certainly had no issues with funding only weeks ago when he said overweight people should get "fat jabs" on the nhs. This is the same health secretary that gave junior doctors a 22% pay increase whilst asking nothing in return. He still thinks he's going to take over from Starmer
David Forman
2025-06-22 22:27:08
Seamus, drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro actually help diabetics control their weight and blood sugar. My consultant, one of Britain's leading endocrinologists, says that if my GP prescribes Mounjaro (one injection per week) that I can stop taking Linagliptin and Gliclazide. Also, I have seen the wonderful results Ozempic has achieved for another in the Forman family. So reducing the overall medication is good thing all round.
Seamus
2025-06-23 00:34:45
I would agree David but you actually try getting them on the NHS only to be told your postcode doesn't do them. Mr Streeting loves making empty promises and he and his party will be out of government by the time the assisted dying comes into operation.
Ted
2025-06-23 05:57:29
Someone on these posts said Robert Halfons post about cost wrong wrong, and should only been about the best for the patient. Was that because Robert was a tory. What's he got to say about it now Wes Streeting is saying the same thing . I think it was Peter who posted it. Not suggesting he votes Labour of course.
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