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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I agree. It highlights the point that the impact assessment will be very important here, to see from where the resources are being pulled to provide this. The Committee should…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I rise to speak briefly to amendment 296. We all know how the NHS operates, how the appointment system works in the NHS and how long people have to wait to see a doctor. I do not…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)Could the Minister clarify whether the requirement for one year of residency in the UK means that a foreign citizen studying at a university here would be able to consider…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for confirming that. That is reassuring but, as I said earlier, I would like to know when the patient will have access to the panel. It is important that…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)We are talking about a very important issue in relation to training. Most training provided in the NHS, whether on the capacity assessment or domestic violence, is mandatory…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for her timely intervention. I was going to say that having tabled amendment 1 asking for a psychiatrist to be involved, and having now been through many…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I should like to speak to amendment 1 —I am pleased that I was able to table my amendment first. We have already discussed safeguarding many times and how capacity is central to…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I beg to move amendment 56, in clause 8, page 4, line 34, at end insert— “(ba) would not, in the opinion of the independent doctor, be liable for detention under the Mental Health…05 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I fully support the amendments, but they say that the practitioner conducting the preliminary discussion should use an interpreter. Should the interpreter not also be available…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)As the hon. Member for Richmond Park says, we have repeatedly debated people’s mental health and how, once somebody has had a diagnosis of a terminal illness, it can have an…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I rise to speak in support of the amendment. The documentation in our healthcare system is a very important matter. It helps us to share good practice and to learn from mistakes.…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Seventeenth sitting)Does the hon. Member think that, if we bring in an agency from outside the NHS—from the private sector—this will become like a business?04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I rise in support of the amendments, especially amendments 342 and 425. We have discussed various aspects of the Bill, especially capacity, coercion and medical practices, under…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Sixteenth sitting)There are other people who support this concept, and they are the people who will be having the conversation—we have both sides of the argument. I believe that the best person to…04 Mar 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I would be happy to see the Bill make a strong case that the people who will take part in this process have training before they do so. My larger issue is around the independent…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I was talking about the training, which we have talked about many times in this Committee, for the people who may carry out capacity assessments, and about my experience of…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I agree. As part of the code of practice, professionals are expected to complete the training that has been outlined already, but I am not confident that that is actually…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)Does the Minister agree that when it comes to withdrawing treatment, especially switching off a ventilator, the decision is often made between the medical professionals and the…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fifteenth sitting)The amendment would add a 28-day period between the diagnosis and the start of the conversation about assisted dying. Having listened to hon. Members speak and given the evidence…26 Feb 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Fourteenth sitting)But it could be the other way around. The Bill does not clarify that the second doctor would know the patient at all.26 Feb 2025