Member

I served on Gordon Brown’s committee to commemorate the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, and launched the Diana nurses, paediatric palliative care nurses who went out into the community. I visited them all, accompanied them on visits and saw the profound difference that this makes. Family service teams are a vital part of palliative care. Surely, His Majesty’s Government could show an element of humanity on this issue and allow an exemption. Amendment 29 is important because the increased cost of this policy to hospices, which, as I have outlined, are already struggling, would be catastrophic. I beg to move.