Dr Lucy Thomas: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Palliative care and public health doctor
- Quoted on
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking, Assisted dying
- Tracked press citations
- 4
- Most recently quoted
- 18 Oct 2026
- First quoted
- 10 Sept 2026
“We believe the greatest value of autonomous AI lies not in the technology itself, but in the specialist capacity it unlocks”
What Dr Lucy Thomas has said
“If parliament returns to this issue, it should approach it afresh and honestly grapple with the complex ethical and practical trade-offs. I, and many others with relevant expertise, would welcome the opportunity to help.”
Palliative care and public health doctor · Assisted dying · 29 Sept 2026 · On assisted dying, MPs grappled with a difficult bill | Letters ↗
“If parliament returns to this issue, it should approach it afresh and honestly grapple with the complex ethical and practical trade-offs. I, and many others with relevant expertise, would welcome the opportunity to help.”
Palliative care and public health doctor · Assisted dying · 29 Sept 2026 · On assisted dying, MPs grappled with a difficult bill ↗
“I'm a doctor who is not opposed to legalising assisted dying. But I cannot support a proposal that would require me to treat a patient saying they want to end their life in a radically different way just because of their life expectancy: more than six months, suicide prevention; six months or less, assessment for a lethal prescription.”
Palliative care doctor · Assisted dying · 10 Sept 2026 · Peers are just doing their job in scrutinising the assisted dying bill | Letters ↗
Where Dr Lucy Thomas has been quoted
- Autonomous AI can increase clinical capacity for dermatologistsmedicalxpress.com · 18 Oct 2026
- On assisted dying, MPs grappled with a difficult bill | Letterstheguardian.com · 29 Sept 2026
- On assisted dying, MPs grappled with a difficult billaol.co.uk · 29 Sept 2026
- Peers are just doing their job in scrutinising the assisted dying bill | Letterstheguardian.com · 10 Sept 2026
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