Biography
Baroness Cass has engaged extensively on end-of-life care through 21 debate speeches, with particular focus on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, where she emphasised the importance of multiprofessional assessment, safeguards against coercion, and integration with palliative care services. She has also championed children's health and wellbeing, drawing on her experience as a paediatrician and former president of the paediatric college to advocate for investment in child protection and community-based paediatric care. Across her contributions, she has raised concerns about implementation monitoring, health inequalities in care provision, and the need for robust safeguards particularly for vulnerable populations.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…e case for better integration across primary, community and acute services, particularly increasing delivery of paediatric care in primary and community settings. The Government’s commitment to shift care from hospital to community settings is welcome, but we have heard similar aspirations before.”
Record by topic
- Palliative & end of life care64th of 56822.0
- Assisted dying58th of 37114.0
- Children's health12th of 15712.0
- Mental health456th of 8808.0
- Public health & prevention252nd of 6886.0
- Heart disease & stroke150th of 3984.0
- Dementia101st of 2514.0
- Health inequalities245th of 2882.0
- Diabetes154th of 1902.0
- Cancer503rd of 6222.0
- Learning disability & autism756th of 8992.0
- GP access205th of 2412.0
What they’ve said
“…Your co-ordinating professional, as I described them, would be with you throughout, as would the specialist assisted dying doctor, from the time you started engaging with them.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-27 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…It is likely that the person who is covering a particular area or locality will be known to the team and to the palliative care services. They may or may not be as familiar as other specialists—I hope not, by virtue of the fact that we are anticipating smaller numbers—but they would be a separate individual who comes i…”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-27 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…stand part notice, and the amendments in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, on parallel care between assisted dying and the continuing care process. I believe that what I have to say would vastly simplify things.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-27 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…hard, if someone is not retaining information, for anyone to help them to do so; people who are suffering from dementia or memory loss would otherwise be able to be facilitated to remember things, which they cannot possibly be.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-20 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…When a previously young, fit person walks through the door with a cancer diagnosis, there will be a series of trials and data on the prognosis for that age group with that diagnosis. Then it narrows down as there are the specific features for that individual.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-20 · Read on Hansard ↗
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