House of Lords
ConservativeOverall, across health & social care this Parliament
Alive and kicking!
Ranks 321st of 1273 MPs and peers who have spoken on health or care this Parliament — top 25%. 30 contributions since 2024-10-08.
“My Lords, it is always a challenge to follow a bishop, and the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Manchester is no exception. The Prime Minister says that a central aim of the new legislative programme is to strengthen security, the economy, energy and defence.”
King’s Speech · 2026-05-21 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…nt management”: how, for instance, to deal with a patient who insists, contrary to the evidence, that they have cancer? However, there is a second, higher level—an induction into the ethos of the profession. This level is of vital importance in training medical professionals, because they are dealing with human beings.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-27 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…s not necessarily have to be a doctor to whom the person is referred—who are in the vanguard of protagonists of assisted dying? This is the concern that that seeks to deal with in a state service.…”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-20 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…We see in education and other areas that exceptions continue to have to be made—for instance, for children with special educational needs, particularly autistic children.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-20 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…ted if the general practitioner, the medical practitioner in the Bill, does not feel willing or able to discuss assisted dying with them. The amendments would ensure that the information was provided by someone neutral.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-20 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…A doctor who is trusted to find the best medical treatment for, say, pneumonia, blood pressure or heart disease becomes an agent who leads to the medicalised death for the patient with a poison that is self-administered, as if it were just an ordinary curative medicine.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-13 · Read on Hansard ↗
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