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Interview: Nick Carroll, ceo, Together for Short Lives

3 mins read Health Interview
Nick Carroll has taken the helm at children’s palliative care charity Together for Short Lives in the middle of a national debate about the right to choose when to die and the need to improve end of life care.
Carroll: 'We've tried to represent all perspectives'

Most of his time in the role – he started in September – has been spent considering the implications of the Assisted Dying Bill, which is set to herald a fundamental change in British law by giving adults with a terminal condition the right to request a medically assisted death if they have less than six months to live.

Carroll, who spent five years leading income generation at the charity, says the media attention on the private members’ bill, which passed its second reading in parliament in late November and will move to the committee stage over the next few months, means there’s “never been a better opportunity” to raise awareness about the needs of children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions.

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