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Letter from the HSCS Committee Convener to the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland, 26 November 2024
Read the correspondence (114KB, pdf) posted 28 November 2024
Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill
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