Dame Deirdre Hine: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- former chief medical officer for Wales
- Quoted on
- Assisted dying
- Press citations held
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
“The bill's definition of terminal illness fails to recognise the risks from mistaken diagnosis or misinformation. Accurate prognostication is impossible.”
Where Dame Deirdre Hine has been quoted
- Doctors urge Senedd to reject UK Parliament's assisted dying billbbc.com · 30 Sept 2026
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