“…Initially—this was decades ago—in the approval of clinical trials and then in the setting up of the Human Tissue Authority, which I chaired. I also sat on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and was for six years a member of the General Medical Council.”
Record by topic
- Palliative & end of life care177th of 5408.0
- Assisted dying115th of 3928.0
- GP access209th of 2472.0
- Medical ethics & regulation168th of 2262.0
- Public health & prevention585th of 7002.0
- Learning disability & autism758th of 9052.0
- Cancer520th of 6412.0
Also active on assisted dying
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 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…I am trying to say is that her desire for her life to end, and the method that she took to do that, was not assisted dying. That was not available to her and it did not come into the equation.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-02-06 · Read on Hansard ↗
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