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My other concern is that a lot of people who work in palliative care have deep religious beliefs and do not wish to discuss assisted dying with their patients. We have to find a way round that in order to ensure that patients are given options but we do not lose important people from our healthcare teams because they are expected to do something that makes them very uncomfortable. We have dealt with that in relation to abortion; we need to think about it in the longer term. I am not proposing an amendment now, but I really felt that I had to speak.