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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I have just finished that example, Mrs Harris. Several highly experienced palliative medicine doctors have warned us that doctors raising assisted dying with patients would have…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)My hon. Friend no doubt speaks from his experience of being a mental health nurse. I think there is space for that, and there are amendments that we will come on to when we talk…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Sorry—would my hon. Friend like to intervene?25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I am happy to withdraw that comment, given the welcome intervention of my hon. Friend the Member for Spen Valley. When intervening on me in a previous sitting of the Committee,…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)I absolutely agree that if the Bill is to get through Parliament, it has to have those mechanisms and safeguards in place, but I am sure we will come to those later. If we do not…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for clarifying that—that is really helpful. But where does the amendment leave us in terms of disabled people? I am just trying to understand.25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)I appreciate that cancer does come under disability, and that people with cancer can identify as a disabled person, but my initial thought is that that weakens the Bill.25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I concur with the hon. Member’s remarks.25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention, but the truth of the matter is we have 10 cases that have gone to the Court of Protection. In nine of those 10 cases, judges ruled…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)I beg to move amendment 281, in clause 1, page 1, line 20, at end insert— “(c) has met with a palliative care specialist for the purposes of being informed about the medical and…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)Amendment 281 would ensure that the patient receives advice on palliative care options from a specialist in the field. Medicine is fast-paced, with innovative and new medicines…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)I completely agree, which is why the amendment tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for York Central (Rachael Maskell) is very important. I urge the Committee to accept it, as it…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)I absolutely agree. Nobody in this Committee, from what I have heard over the weeks of evidence that we have taken, is suggesting in any way that we are dismissive of people who…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)My hon. Friend comes from a mental health background, and I appreciate his expertise. We have talked a great deal about coercion—we have debated it for hours and hours—and I agree…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)I completely agree. It is imperative that those options—pain options and care options, including with the family—are explored in detail. The last time that I spent time in a…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)Professor Sleeman’s evidence to me around palliative care says: “‘Essential’ services are not provided: A good example is that our study of community services that are provided to…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)Will the hon. Member give way?25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)rose —25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who is being generous with his time. I want to bring in something that is very real for me at the moment. As a result of a hit and run, I have…25 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twelfth sitting)Sorry, Mr Efford. How can a GP guarantee that all those options have been covered, even in that initial discussion?25 Feb 2025