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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Q I have a short final question. Is Marie Curie’s position basically that if palliative care does not improve, assisted dying should not be introduced in this country? Sam…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Dr Fellingham, given your experience of both the British and the Australian healthcare systems, do you believe there are any fundamental differences that would affect how…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I have a question for Mr Amin. You worked on the judicial review of Noel Conway in 2018. For the benefit of the Committee and those watching, Mr Conway had terminal motor…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Q Sorry, Mr Royston, but I am coming back to you with a similar question. I do not think anyone on the Committee or, as Mr Porter mentioned, anyone who took part in our recent…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Q Dr Cox, may I follow up on one of the things you said earlier? Forgive me if I have misunderstood; I want to be clear. Earlier, I think you said that in the countries that do…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Q Sure. That is a really fair argument. Again, what I am driving towards is the point you were trying to make earlier, which is—I think this is fair to say—that countries that do…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Yes, so the direct comparison is not necessarily relevant. Is that correct?28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Sorry. I was trying to make a point—28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Q Sir Nicholas, I am going to paraphrase a little bit, but you said people with Parkinson’s will never get a terminal diagnosis, so this Bill is no use to you at all—I think you…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Q Sure. Let us phrase it in a different way today. Would you be able to expand on your thinking there? Sir Nicholas Mostyn: Parkinson’s is such a complex condition. The medically…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Q In your view—I think you kind of said it before, and I would hate to put words in your mouth—are you saying that Parkinson’s sufferers and other similar— Sir Nicholas Mostyn:…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Yes, those with such conditions. Are they left out of this debate? Sir Nicholas Mostyn: They are.28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Second sitting)Q My question, which relates to some of the points made earlier, is for Glyn Berry. Your organisation has recommended a new role: the approved palliative care professional. To go…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Second sitting)Q This might sound like playing devil’s advocate, and I fully appreciate that you do not want to reduce this to a tick-box exercise, as you described it. Some might argue that the…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you, Professor Whitty and Duncan, for being with us this morning. Professor Whitty, in October you and a number of chief medical officers published an advice note to…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Q In your view, and that of the rest of the panel, is there a way to legislate to include them? Sir Nicholas Mostyn: It has been suggested that I want to expand the definition of…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Q The whole panel has painted—and we have heard this previously—a pretty bleak picture of the state of palliative care in the UK. Would you say that it was better or worse than it…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Q I will keep my question quite short. Is there anything about the law in either of your jurisdictions where you think there could be improvement, and that we can learn from in…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Q I guess what I am driving towards is that simply not having assisted dying is not necessarily causation for improvement in palliative care. In this country, for example, we have…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Education, Health and Care PlansThank you, Dr Huq, for your excellent chairship, which has allowed everybody to contribute. This is a national issue, but SEND services in Ipswich and Suffolk have been in a…22 Jan 2025