General Practitioners: Hippocratic Oath

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff Excerpts

Thursday 11th December 2014 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Jolly]

My Lords, patients trust doctors with their lives and well-being and need to have confidence that they are competent in their field and abide by high ethical standards. Therefore, doctors must be registered with a licence to practise from the GMC.

[Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB)]

Do the Government recognise that yesterday’s vote in the National Assembly for Wales that rejected the principles of the Assisted Dying Bill is compatible with the 77% of general practitioners who do not want that Bill to come in, and with the view of a high percentage of doctors who are looking after such patients full-time?