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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThere is never enough training—let us assess that.14 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI would like to briefly intervene, because every day of the week there are hundreds of decisions made in the NHS and independent care about life and death. I will give a very…14 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I wish to comment on the previous statement made by the noble Lord, Lord Gove. I am a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and I must have used the Mental…14 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillIt does.14 Nov 2025HANSARDGoodmayes Hospital Mental Health FacilityMy Lords, would the Minister agree with me that, while it is 10 years since Alice Figueiredo died, we know that resources in mental health services in-patient units—in terms of…13 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I have often spoken in support of this and in most debates in this House on every Bill to introduce assisted dying in England and Wales since the Joffe Bill in 2005, and…12 Sept 2025HANSARDProstate CancerMy Lords, as a doctor, I have witnessed many men living with prostate cancer and cared for them. It has been heartening over the last 30 years to see the dramatic improvement in…03 Sept 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, noble Lords will be pleased to know that this is a very small, probing amendment, on a matter that was brought to my notice by some forensic psychiatrists. One of their…27 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]27 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, it is my great pleasure to respond to the Minister. I will keep it brief. I have been using this Act for 40 years since 1983, and I assure the noble Lord, Lord Timpson,…27 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I agree with everything that the noble Baroness, Lady Barker, has said. She is absolutely right that professions should be challenged, and that is partly what legislation can do,…22 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, I feel I must poke my nose in on these of amendments, even though I do not have an amendment. I support the noble Earl, Lord Howe, and his various amendments. I…22 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]Yes, I would say that indeed it was. That year when they gave an extra £400,000 to spreading psychotherapy around was the same time when we were having incredible crises in acute…22 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I am awfully sorry, but I should have mentioned that I also have almost all the other amendments in this group. They cover the same question—it is just about the wording of these…20 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I will speak to Amendment 100 in this group, and there are four or five consequential amendments which I have added. Noble Lords will therefore be pleased to know that the group…20 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I apologise. Obviously, I was looking at another figure from a different bit of the impact assessment.20 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]North Carolina.20 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]It is taken directly from the Government’s impact assessment on the Bill to local authorities, with these particular resources for IMHAs.20 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for her response. I have to say that psychiatrists remain worried about this and the possibility that they will be expected to make decisions on risks which…20 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, in this group, we return to the issue of serious harm and risk. Clause 5, on the grounds for detention, implies that the risk factors for detention under Part 2 are…20 Jan 2025