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Hansard to 12 November 2026 · 31,484 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
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Maurice Hickey: no photograph is held, so the sector leader plate is shown instead.
Sector leader
Maurice Hickey
head of policy at the Pharmacists' Defence Association (PDA) Scotland
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Quoted in the press, across 1 topic since 22 Jan 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Maurice Hickey: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- head of policy at the Pharmacists' Defence Association (PDA) Scotland
- Quoted on
- Assisted dying
- Press coverage
- Quoted in the press
- Most recently quoted
- 22 Jan 2026
04 On the record · press
What Maurice Hickey has said
By outlet · bar length shows relative volume
- pharmaceutical-journal.com
Where Maurice Hickey has been quoted
- Concerns raised that pharmacists in Scotland may not be able to opt out of assisted dying processpharmaceutical-journal.com · 22 Jan 2026
How we found the articles that name Maurice Hickey: we searched news for these terms.
- assisted dying
- assisted dying bill
- assisted suicide
- terminally ill adults bill
- right to die
- euthanasia
Also searched with “assisted dying” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag. Every term for Assisted dying
Verbatim
“The PDA is conscious of the time pressure in both parliaments and is worried that if the safeguards in relation to the conscience clause are diluted in either house this could have profound implications for individual pharmacists.”
Related media coverage
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