"My Lords, I remind the House that Harold Shipman was a murderer convicted of 15 life sentences plus four years. He did not provide an assisted death. I would like that to be on the record.
"My Lords, I am grateful to contribute to this debate, and I too thank the noble Lord, Lord Patel. I declare my interest: I am a practising GP just across the river, and, over the past 40 years, I have diagnosed and cared for many tens of thousands of patients …..." Baroness Gerada - View Speech
"Can I give a clarification? I have just been in contact with most of the senior officers at the Royal College of General Practitioners. To put it on the record, to the best of my and their knowledge, the RCGP has not called for a register, a public one or …..." Baroness Gerada - View Speech
"My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for his “any old” comment; I am “any old” general practitioner. I will pick up a few issues. One is around the register being made publicly available. I absolutely would not want my name on a publicly available register as somebody providing the …..." Baroness Gerada - View Speech
"I have talked before about using the term “assisted suicide”. If this becomes available, it will be an unusual event: we are not talking about hundreds of patients wanting an assisted death. I suspect that, within each local area, a list will be available, held at the local health authority …..." Baroness Gerada - View Speech
"On a point of clarification, we have heard it said several times that the Royal College of GPs is in favour of a publicly available register. To the best of my knowledge, and having just checked, the Royal College of GPs is not in favour of a publicly available register. …..." Baroness Gerada - View Speech
"Is the right reverend Prelate aware that coercion can also occur in the consultation room, as I have seen many times? It may actually be safer for the girl—or the child, as he is calling her—to be able to choose the place and the time where she has that consultation...." Baroness Gerada - View Speech