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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

My Lords, the noble Lord asked about data. During the Select Committee that was held on Lord Joffe’s Bill on this subject, the Royal College of Pathologists told us in evidence that, at post-mortem, one in 20 people were found to have died from something different to what was written on the death certificate. That underlines the point that he makes: errors in diagnosis are the fundamental problem, happen quite often and result in the wrong treatment being given—not through malpractice, but just because medicine is a very inexact science.

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