Palliative care and choice must be at the heart of the assisted dying debate | Letters

Readers respond to an article by Rachel Clarke on how people are dying without the support they needRachel Clarke is right to highlight the pressures on palliative care, but wrong to suggest that assisted dying debates have sidelined these concerns (As a palliative care specialist, I’ve witnessed the human tragedy of our end-of-life care crisis, 10 November). In fact, the opposite is true. The CEO of Hospice UK, Toby Porter, has stated that the government’s £100m investment in