Baroness Hayman
House of Lords
CrossbenchOverall, across health & social care this Parliament
Get a doctor in here!
Ranks 713th of 1273 MPs and peers who have spoken on health or care this Parliament — top 56%. 9 contributions since 2024-11-18.
Record by topic
- Palliative & end of life care138th of 57312.0
- Cancer495th of 6132.0
- GP access199th of 2322.0
- Learning disability & autism812th of 9672.0
- Public health & prevention613th of 7342.0
What they’ve said
“…Twenty years ago, I was a member of the Select Committee on Joel Joffe’s assisted dying Bill. That experience, the visits that we made and the evidence that we heard, convinced me that it was possible to frame legislation that safeguarded against coercion and did not compromise but rather complemented palliative care.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-04-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…The noble Baroness, Lady Lawlor, spoke as if there was a very binary division between assisted dying care and palliative care. Yet the cases that I have been involved with and seen very closely have been of people very definitely frail and at the end of their lives, and where the range of options they wanted to talk ab…”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-13 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…The doctor should be able to talk freely about all those options. In my view of the world, that would include assisted dying, but there is a spectrum.…”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-13 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Just like palliative care, bereavement services are very patchy—all over the place—and vary tremendously. Why should this category of parental loss be subject to the obligation of the state to provide bereavement services, as against every other sort of parental loss?…”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-02-27 ·