Member

That is why we need to try to get a sense of “terminal illness”. Many people are successfully treated for cancer; it is also one of the biggest killers, as I am sure yesterday’s cancer plan recognised. We should also be thinking carefully about not exactly safeguards but processes that we need to get in place to try to understand what more we can expect clinicians to do under this Bill to ask those sorts of questions—it is technically a terminal illness but, as we know, people live with type 1 diabetes for an exceptionally long time and have very fulfilling lives. We should reconsider those aspects of the definition.