Terminal patients say hospices and rest homes' refusal to have assisted deaths onsite make their last days stressful and difficult

The family of a Wellington man who had an assisted death say they struggled to find a place for him to die because his hospice wouldn't allow the procedure on the premises.

He'd been getting home visits by Mary Potter Hospice.

Mary Potter Hospice says palliative care and assisted dying are very different services and can't go hand in hand.

Earlier this month the Ministry of Health recommended hospices and other care facilities should be required to allow assisted deaths if the patient is a permanent resident.