Dr. Sarah Wollaston: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- former doctor, former member of UK Parliament, former chair of the Health and Care Select Committee in England and NHS Devon
- Quoted on
- Palliative & end of life care, Assisted dying
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 29 Oct 2026
- First quoted
- 29 Sept 2026
“The committee is primarily responsible for making sure that the service is set up and operates entirely within the law and we're aiming to have the service up and running in the early autumn next year.”
What Dr. Sarah Wollaston has said
“Assisted suicide does harm others: it harms the doctors who take on the responsibility for killing their patients. There is a vast difference between the moral responsibility in doctors withholding treatment that will end life and actively prescribing with the primary intent to ensure death.”
former doctor, former member of UK Parliament, former chair of the Health and Care Select Committee in England and NHS Devon · Assisted dying · 29 Sept 2026 · New chair of Jersey’s Assisted Dying Service previously said 'assisted suicide does harm others' ↗
Where Dr. Sarah Wollaston has been quoted
- Committee recruiting islander-voice for assisted dyingbbc.co.uk · 29 Oct 2026
- New chair of Jersey’s Assisted Dying Service previously said 'assisted suicide does harm others'christiandaily.com · 29 Sept 2026
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics — not necessarily citing them directly.
- “No one has ever told me they want to die in hospital. We must give people a real alternative”Marie Curie
- Devon nurse challenges belief that palliative care means giving up hopeExmouth Journal
- Voluntary euthanasia: will it be a fickle majorityThe Malta Independent Online
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