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

Debate between Tom Gordon and Kit Malthouse

Committee stage
Tuesday 25th March 2025 Public Bill Committees

[Kit Malthouse]

That is an extraordinary claim to make against doctors.

[Tom Gordon (Harrogate and Knaresborough) (LD)]

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.