Assisted Dying: What Next?
Will assisted dying ever happen in the UK, and how would it work if it did? The BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh, talks to leading supporters and opponents.
Assisted dying looked set to become one of the biggest social changes of modern times when MPs at Westminster voted in favour in June 2025. But now the bill covering England and Wales is getting held up in the House of Lords, and many of its supporters fear that it is running out of time.
The BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh, talks to leading supporters and opponents, and visits a hospice to talk to patients at the end of their lives. He also travels to Western Australia, where voluntary assisted dying has been available since 2021, to meet one of the doctors who pioneered it and to see a patient preparing for an assisted death. Will assisted dying ever happen in the UK, and how would it work if it did?
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| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Reporter | Fergus Walsh |
| Editor | Karen Wightman |
| Executive Producer | Adam Grimley |
| Producer | Alison Priestley |
| Director | Alison Priestley |
