Quite naturally, few of us spend our time thinking about whether the state provides adequate care when we die. It doesn’t,
by the way.

But this UK government must. The current fragmented approach to end-of-life care is crippling other parts of the NHS – ambulances, emergency departments and hospital wards – which are becoming the default. In the next 20 years, these pressures, if things aren’t done differently, will mushroom. This will affect us all. 

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