Professor Robert Landers:

What we were doing as an association is outlining the limitations of current capacity and resources within the health system. We are outlining the risk that people may choose assisted dying because of a lack of capacity or resource elsewhere in the health service. If we are that short of palliative care consultants, and we know we are short of mental health professionals, physicians for the elderly, diagnostic physicians, hospital beds and beds in the community, we do not want people taking what could be an inappropriate option because of a lack of proper resources elsewhere in the system.