Biography
Baroness O'Loan has engaged extensively on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill through 40 debate speeches, raising detailed concerns about patient safeguarding, including the sequencing of palliative care discussions, protections for vulnerable groups such as those with learning disabilities, and conscience protections for healthcare practitioners. Beyond this dominant focus, she has also addressed mental health issues including post-traumatic stress disorder following childbirth, and briefly touched on abortion legislation. Her contributions have been characterised by detailed procedural and comparative analysis, frequently citing international examples from Australia and New Zealand.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…baby, you do not necessarily have to find that you can do everything perfectly and that, where you have serious mental health issues, you must be able to seek help.…”
Record by topic
- Palliative & end of life care22nd of 56856.0
- Assisted dying17th of 37154.0
- Mental health188th of 88018.0
- Cancer121st of 62214.0
- Dementia18th of 25112.0
- Learning disability & autism369th of 89910.0
- Heart disease & stroke150th of 3984.0
- Public health & prevention373rd of 6884.0
- Elderly care & frailty67th of 2364.0
- Respiratory (asthma/COPD)122nd of 1422.0
- Unpaid carers243rd of 2832.0
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking114th of 1392.0
- NHS waiting lists467th of 5342.0
- Diabetes154th of 1902.0
- Rare diseases170th of 2022.0
What they’ve said
“…ection for the vulnerable, the weak, the poor, the disabled, the sick, those with suicidal ideation, those with mental health problems and all those whom we have identified. Many of us have concluded that this Bill is not safe and have worked to try to make it safer.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-04-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Royal College of Pathologists, the Royal College of Nursing, the Royal College of Physicians, the British Geriatrics Society, the Law Society, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and the organisation Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-04-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Think of the pressures of bed-blocking and budgets in the NHS. Regrettably, many of the amendments that the noble and learned Lord tabled weaken safeguards for which the MPs voted—such as explicit domestic abuse training or the mandatory independent advocate presence—under the guise of tidying up the Bill.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-04-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…I apologise to the House; I am struggling slightly. We are talking about assisted dying here and nothing else. I am saying that there has to be a conscience clause: that people of faith—I do not know how many faiths are involved—must have the right not to go against their conscience.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-27 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I assume that the noble Baroness is aware that one of the reasons why we need to be absolutely specific about what we are doing is that 42% of people think assisted dying is palliative care. We need to make clear what we are talking about.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-27 · Read on Hansard ↗
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