While the scheme opens to terminally ill residents next month, efforts to dump federal laws banning doctors from remotely aiding suicide are yet to deliver.
Terminally ill Queensland residents in remote areas will require in-person visits from health workers to access the state’s new assisted dying scheme when it launches next month.banning doctors from aiding suicide over the phone or internet have still not delivered a result, despite a promised review by federal Labor.
All Queensland hospital and health services will have authorised practitioners when it opens from January 1, she said on Friday. “This is needed until we get the changes to federal legislation that allows us to support people through telehealth as well,” D’Ath said. While some legal experts argue the Commonwealth would be unlikely to prosecute, the Queensland government has continued to push for a resolution.
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