Following a debate, members backed a Private Member’s Motion (PMM) paying tribute to the ‘enormous and untiring’ efforts of health professionals working in palliative and end of life care.
They called on the Government to guarantee adequate funding and resourcing of palliative care services to ensure the highest possible standards of care for all. Members further affirmed that the law on Assisted Suicide should remain unchanged.
General Synod member Dr Simon Eyre, from the Diocese of Chichester, introducing the PMM, called for the Government to ensure adequate funding for hospices over the next decade.
He said palliative care was currently ‘insufficiently comprehensive’ with only one palliative care consultant per 100,000 of the population.
Synod rejects assisted dying by a large majority – via @ChurchTimes https://t.co/YXZ508Ss4b
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