Member

I move to Amendment 413, which proposes the removal of Clause 12(8) and would have the effect of removing the provision that the co-ordinating doctor could seek a specialist assessment for the independent doctor. That is laudable, but there is a question whether, if the independent doctor has concerns about the co-ordinating doctor whom they may have used for a second opinion on capacity or terminal illness, they would, with the removal of subsection (8)(b), be deprived of the ability to seek the truly independent information they need. That was an important safeguard.