Sarah McCulloch: We already know how the NHS will misuse assisted suicide. Trust me, I work for it. | Conservative Home

Sarah McCulloch worked as a locum occupational therapist for ten years , working across a range of mental health, community, and hospital settings in NHS trusts across London and Essex .

She is currently the manager of a community mental health team at an NHS trust in North London .

Many opponents of assisted dying focus, quite understandably, on the danger of slippery slopes.

We don’t have to ask how NHS staff will manage assisted suicide, because we know.

You’ve given informed consent to start the process but will have no control over how or when it is completed.

After a couple of weeks of observations, tests, and morphine, she’ll arrange for the junior doctor on the ward downstairs to sign off everyone’s second assisted suicide declaration.

Those declarations will then be handed over to the same trust contract solicitor who handles the court of protection applications.

You'll be told this is “getting authorisation for the drugs because they’re controlled”.

We don’t have to ask how NHS staff will manage assisted suicide, because we know.

We let them do it with DNR orders, and court applications to withdraw life-sustaining treatment from brain-damaged toddlers against the wishes of their parents.