Member

So those with complex communication and speech difficulties who wish to access assisted dying will require significant excess support that goes way beyond provisions for literacy barriers or interpreters. More concerningly, given the often too perfunctory conversations that I know occur with this population regarding health services, care packages, housing or any other life choice, I cannot be confident in the average GP surgery having the expertise, knowledge and time to facilitate a meaningful conversation that enables the full range of options to be explored and understood without employing assistance outwith that currently envisaged in the process laid out in the Bill.