(The Telegraph) – Terminally ill patients given six months to live often survive for three years, official figures have revealed, fuelling fresh concern over assisted dying becoming legal

Patients who are given a prognosis of six months by their doctors are entitled to be fast-tracked onto universal credit.

But Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) data obtained by The Telegraph revealed that a fifth of those benefit claimants are living much longer than expected. (Read More)