Brexit: Import of Radioisotopes Debate
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Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
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Brexit: Import of Radioisotopes
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The Lord Privy Seal (Baroness Evans of Bowes Park) (Con)
It is the turn of the Cross Benches.
Lord Warner
My Lords, to what extent does the Minister consider that patients will be put at much greater risk in a no-deal scenario if a large number of oncologists up and down the country take the view that they cannot rely on the supply of medical isotopes and therefore start a programme of delaying access to an assessment and treatment by them? Does she consider that the Government cannot give these assurances because they do not know what the behaviour will be of individual clinicians who require the isotopes to treat their patients?