"The noble and learned Lord kindly agreed to address the issue of inadvertent misdiagnosis and he said that this group of amendments led by Amendment 71 was the time to bring that up. It was pointed out at the time by the noble Baroness, Lady Berger, that 23% of six-month …..." Lord Hamilton of Epsom - View Speech
"This is the second Friday we have had where the target has been 10 groups of amendments and we have come well below half on both those days. If we go on scrutinising the Bill in the way we have been doing, it is inconceivable that it will ever reach …..." Lord Hamilton of Epsom - View Speech
"My Lords, last time the trains were nationalised, they were dirty and late, and the sandwiches were so old that they were curling up at the corners. Why is it going to be different this time?..." Lord Hamilton of Epsom - View Speech
"Can the noble Baroness recall that last week she told the House that 23% of six-months-to-live diagnoses turned out to be wrong and that people lived longer? Does that not make the whole position of face-to-face diagnosis much more important when doctors so often get it wrong?..." Lord Hamilton of Epsom - View Speech
"My Lords, I have supported AI for as long as I can remember, and I think it is the future for this country. If we are looking for improvements in productivity, there is no doubt that we should look to the National Health Service and the public sector, where we …..." Lord Hamilton of Epsom - View Speech
"Does the Minister agree that those in Downing Street should accept that the ILO convention applies to them as well when it comes to meting out violence and harassment on Labour colleagues whose only crime is that they think they could run the country better than the Prime Minister?..." Lord Hamilton of Epsom - View Speech
"My Lords, I put my name to Amendment 313. My concern is the whole question of misdiagnosis. My noble friend Lord Shinkwin has addressed the fact that he was diagnosed with a terminal illness some time ago. One assumption running through this Bill and through the amendments—I apologise to my …..." Lord Hamilton of Epsom - View Speech
"My noble friend Lord Harper is absolutely right: he is still with us, but he is absent for the moment. It might have been that, when he was given his diagnosis that he had six months to live, he was told that his final months would be very grim indeed …..." Lord Hamilton of Epsom - View Speech
"If I understand the noble Baroness correctly, that is 23% of people who die well beyond the six-month sentence they have been given. That is an extraordinarily large figure, and I am grateful to her for it. I think that makes us question the whole basis of this Bill which …..." Lord Hamilton of Epsom - View Speech
"I am very grateful to the noble Baroness. That just illustrates my point that misdiagnosis can very easily be done, and we are putting an enormous weight on it in this Bill and it can so often be wrong. We should be very disturbed and concerned about that because it …..." Lord Hamilton of Epsom - View Speech