"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
"Well, the evidence is there. You either believe in evidence or anecdotes.
The second issue is about ultrasounds. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence does not recommend ultrasounds for judging gestational age, unless there are problems: for example, if a woman’s menstrual cycle is long or if there …..." Baroness Gerada - View Speech
"My Lords, I would like to pick up some of the safeguarding issues around telemedicine that have been mentioned in the House. To put things in context briefly, I have been a GP now for nearly 40 years, and over the past five years I have been conducting many remote …..." Baroness Gerada - View Speech
"My Lords, the new GP contract appears to be baking in access over continuity: my GP, when I want to see him. How will the Government protect continuity of care, which is after all what keeps the NHS safe and provides value for money, and which patients welcome?..." Baroness Gerada - View Speech