The BMA wants physicians to be allowed to raise procedure with patients, but some MPs disagree

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Doctors are preparing to speak out against changes to the proposed assisted dying law that could ban physicians from raising the procedures with patients.

The British Medical Association, which will give evidence to a committee of MPs scrutinising Kim Leadbeater’s private member’s bill, has said doctors must be allowed to raise assisted dying sensitively with patients if it becomes law.