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Members of Parliament recently voted to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales through The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. This Bill will provide an adult who is terminally ill, with a prognosis of less than 6 months, the legal right to ask for and receive help to end their own life. Doctors are clearly essential to the process; indeed, they are mentioned 189 times in the Bill, 1 and while details of how the service will be delivered are currently minimal, it is intended that this will be part of National Health Service (NHS) care. Therefore, it will be fully funded, qualifying patients will have a legal right to access the service, and the Secretary of State for Health will hold ultimate responsibility for ensuring an equitable and accessible model of delivery. The current Health Secretary has already raised significant concerns about the impact of this legislation on the NHS, confirming that additional funds to resource it will not be available.2