"It is very important that the doctor should listen to the wishes of the patient. I certainly think that a doctor should not be able to force-feed a patient in those circumstances...." Baroness Hayman - View Speech
"My Lords, I have found some of this discussion quite difficult to compute with my own very limited—non-doctor—experience of end-of-life care and relatives who have been dying. The noble Baroness, Lady Lawlor, spoke as if there was a very binary division between assisted dying care and palliative care. Yet the …..." Baroness Hayman - View Speech
"I am grateful to the noble Lord. I was trying particularly to get to the point of the doctor’s role. I understand what he says, and he is quite right. I was trying to advocate that doctors should be able to have conversations with their patients about care, not just …..." Baroness Hayman - View Speech
"Will the noble Baroness accept that we would have to define “support” and how it is different from “bereavement services”? Then we will have more of these complications...." Baroness Hayman - View Speech
"My Lords, I am pleased to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Fox of Buckley, not least because I often do not agree with her but I did agree with several of the things she has just said. She started off by talking about the dangers of intricacy in what we …..." Baroness Hayman - View Speech