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Baroness Butler-Sloss (CB)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 12 December 2025

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Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

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My Lords, I am currently a patient, in a very minor way, at an excellent medical practice where the nurses know me well. There are five GPs; I have met two of them briefly, but they do not really know me. I have huge sympathy with these amendments, but I think this is unrealistic. Over the years that I have been at this excellent practice, I have never got to know a GP, certainly to an extent of more than twice. Since there are five, and I am extremely well looked after, I do not see any problem with it. However, the idea that you should know your GP, or rather that your GP should know you—I just do not think that happens across the country. Going by what the noble Baroness, Lady Gerada, said, that is the reality.
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