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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventh sitting)Q For clarity, Dr Ward, you are right that clause 34 requests that the chief medical officer submits an annual report. You clearly have many years of experience in this subject.…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)That is really helpful. Dr Mullock, do you want to add anything? Dr Mullock: I agree with most of the things that I am aware of that Professor Esmail just talked about. I would…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Was it a multidisciplinary board that Dr McLaren set up to look at the safety and quality of voluntary assisted dying? Dr McLaren: This was born out of when we started as a…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Q Thank you, witnesses, for joining us this afternoon. The good news for us all, on the palliative care conversation, is that we have in the room the Minister responsible for…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Q If I may, I have a question for Professor Esmail, but I will make an observation—I think I have a duty to do this, and to be the voice of some of the people we are talking about…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourth sitting)I beg to move, That in the list of witnesses set out in the table in the sittings resolution agreed by the Committee on 21 January 2025 and amended on 28 January 2025, leave out…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Thank you for joining us this morning. I am interested in following up on what Dr Mewett said about the relationship with palliative care, which has an important role to play in…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Sorry. Dr Hussain: I really liked what you said yesterday; we need gold standard training. The thought yesterday about what happens with capacity made me think straight away about…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Q On that point, do you think there could be better training around coercion?29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Q Dr Hussain, I hear your concerns about the broader impact on society, and certainly in terms of ethnic minorities. Have you seen any evidence that that is an issue in other…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Thank you.29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Q You raise a really important point. There is a range of different views within the disabled community, and we heard some of them this morning. A professor of disability rights…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)On a point of order, Mr Dowd. I am slightly concerned that we are having a conversation about the process, rather than about the actual Bill. I am not sure whether that is in…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Q Baroness Falkner, do you want to come in on the point about how we could make the Bill more robust in terms of those protections? Baroness Falkner: Can I just pick up the point…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)It will be a question. The Bill is very clear, in clause 2(3), that disabled people are not within its scope, but I would be really interested to know if there is anything you…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifth sitting)Q Thank you so much for giving evidence this afternoon. Perhaps I can provide a bit of reassurance, Baroness Falkner, on a couple of issues. The first thing I would say in terms…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Thank you for coming to give evidence this morning—it is incredibly helpful. I am going to come back to clause 2 of the Bill, which concerns the definition of terminal illness.…29 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Second sitting)Q Exactly, so although the terminology of “refer” might not be quite right, are we saying that we have got to provide that patient with a course of action? Dr Green: Yes. It is…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)Q Goodness me, there is a lot to cover. To go back to your point, Mr Sanderson, it is important to acknowledge the fantastic work that palliative care professionals do. Indeed, it…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Third sitting)These amendments allow additional witnesses to be called to give oral evidence, including representatives from Disability Rights UK, the Royal College of General Practitioners,…28 Jan 2025