With just over a month until voluntary assisted dying is available in Queensland, modelling projects about 400 people will use the laws to legally end their life in 2023.
abc.net.au/news/queensland-voluntary-assisted-dying-laws-terminal-illness/101705098About 400 terminally ill adults are expected to use Queensland's voluntary assisted dying laws to legally end their lives during the first 12 months of the new laws coming into effect.
"This is introducing a new service at a social scale. I can't think of anything bigger, really," he told the ABC. "But all of the processes are coming into alignment. We fully expect we'll be ready to go on the first of January." He acknowledged the VAD workload could be a worry "if you don't know the patient", but suspected most GPs would be dealing with their regular patients."This is not teaching doctors how to talk to patients or to do palliative care, these are specific instructions about the legislation and how to comply with the legislation," he said.
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