DHDame Deirdre Hine — no licensed photograph is available, so the academic plate is shown instead.

Academic

Dame Deirdre Hine

former chief medical officer for Wales

Press citations

1

Topic

1

Assisted dying

Last quoted

Sept 2026

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

  1. Doctors urge Senedd to reject UK Parliament's assisted dying billbbc.com · 30 Sept 2026

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