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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/surgeon-backs-righttodie-campaign.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Sir Terence English, who performed the UK's first heart transplant, has backed the right-to-die campaign" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-surgeon-backs-righttodie-campaign.jpg" alt="Sir Terence English, who performed the UK's first heart transplant, has backed the right-to-die campaign"/></a></p>
<p>One of the UK&#8217;s top surgeons has backed the right-to-die campaign by insisting that he would be willing to help terminally ill patients end their lives.</p>
<p>Sir Terence English, who performed the UK&#8217;s first heart transplant, has offered his support to an influential steering committee that backs assisted dying.</p>
<p>Sir Terence told The Sunday Times: &#8220;A doctor has responsibility first to the patient and, if I knew that patient was terminally ill, was of sound mind and hadn&#8217;t been got at by friends and relatives, I would be prepared to assist him or her.&#8221;</p>
<p>His comments come after director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer last year clarified the legal position on assisted dying.</p>
<p>The move was interpreted by many as a clear indication that friends and family were unlikely to face prosecution if motivated by compassion to help a relative or close friend with a &#8220;clear, settled and informed&#8221; wish to die.</p>
<p>Sir Terence, who has joined the Healthcare Professionals for Assisted Dying group, added: &#8220;I would want there to be safeguards. I would want to have a doctor who had not been involved with their care, who had been registered for five years, who would confirm mental capacity of the patient, that they were sound of mind.</p>
<p>&#8220;I would also wish to ascertain that no pressure had been put on him or her by the family and, if in any doubt at all, involve a psychologist.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sir Terence, a former president of the Royal College of Surgeons and the British Medical Association, performed the UK&#8217;s first successful heart transplant in 1979.</p>
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