Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-eighth sitting) Debate

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Department: Ministry of Justice
Kit Malthouse Portrait Kit Malthouse
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That is an extraordinary claim to make against doctors.

Tom Gordon Portrait Tom Gordon (Harrogate and Knaresborough) (LD)
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I am just trying to wrap my head around the argument. We already know that integrated care boards and other commissioning bodies have incentives given to them when they commission services, so it would be in their interests to diagnose or produce a demand for a service in a particular area. There is already an analogous situation within the NHS; I do not see how that is any different.

Sarah Olney Portrait Sarah Olney
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I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention, but those incentives are not about creating profits that make money for individuals. They are about directing the way that resources are allocated to ensure that a broader range of health outcomes are achieved. When I talk about a profit incentive, it is an entirely different kind of incentive from the one he has just raised.