Doctors free to initiate euthanasia talks with patients under draft WA law
And in a shift from the Victorian model, nurse practitioners can administer the lethal drugs
Doctors will be free to start conversations about voluntary euthanasia with terminally ill patients under the WA’s proposed assisted dying laws.
The state government unveiled its voluntary assisted dying legislation on Tuesday, which, if passed, will make it the second state after Victoria to legalise euthanasia.
Under the plan, an adult Australian citizen or permanent resident, who has been a resident of WA for at least one year, will be eligible.
They must have an illness or medical condition that is advanced and will “on the balance of probabilities” cause their death within six months, or 12 months if it is a neurodegenerative condition.
