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The Royal College of GPs’ curious assisted dying U-turn

18 March 2025

1:41 AM

18 March 2025

1:41 AM

A curious decision by the Royal College of GPs (RCGP). The UK governing council of the group – which represents GPs across Great Britain and Northern Ireland – opted on Friday to change its long-standing policy on assisted dying. It has now shifted to a position of neither supporting nor opposing assisted dying, prompting Kim Leadbeater to hail the decision as ‘welcome’.

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