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Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 23 January 2026

Debate

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Contribution

I seek a little more clarification. The noble and learned Lord just said that the doctor should act in a way to save the patient’s life. In that case, if the patient takes their lethal drugs and does not die, the doctor then stands back, lets them wake up, lets them vomit and tries to stop them fitting or clears the airway. But that has to be explicit in the Bill, so that there is no misunderstanding at all that there is any circumstance in which the doctor can then proceed to top up or further inject lethal drugs. In other countries, that is what happens if the patient has not died. Here we are talking about it being self-administered by the patient.

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