"The noble Baroness is absolutely correct that it is the process. In the Bill, there would be two doctors who, after sitting down and discussing with the patient their understanding, have to write an independent report that details the very things that the noble Baroness has noted, which are within …..." Lord Scriven - View Speech
"I am not sure whether the noble Lord is aware that the GMC duties of a doctor are a legal requirement for a doctor to practise in the UK. The doctor therefore has to go through all those, regardless of what is in this Bill, to ensure that the patient …..." Lord Scriven - View Speech
"Just to inform the noble Lord, I have tabled no amendments, I have made no point about what I wish or do not wish to see, and I am not the sponsor of the Bill. In relation to what the noble Lord has said about the legal requirements of the …..." Lord Scriven - View Speech
"Does the noble Baroness accept that, under the GMC, for any intervention that a doctor takes, they must explain to the patient the risks and the benefits and then ensure that the patient understands them? It is normal medical practice and has been written in the Bill to make sure …..." Lord Scriven - View Speech
"Will the noble Lord point out in the Bill any clause that moves away from the normal GMC duties of a doctor in terms of either consent or capacity? If the noble Lord could explain that, it would be very helpful when he continues his argument...." Lord Scriven - View Speech
"My Lords, what confidence do the Government have in the agency when the software upgrade that led to this issue took place in 2019 yet the Department for Transport was informed only last September, some six years later?..." Lord Scriven - View Speech
"My Lords, recent Health Service Journal investigative journalism has found that the Chief Midwifery Officer wrote to trusts last year identifying gross failures in home births safety, yet the Government have chosen to keep this information private while women are pushed into unsupported births. Is it acceptable for NHS England …..." Lord Scriven - View Speech
"My Lords, if defence of diplomacy, as the Minister said, is the foremost approach of the Government, and to continue the line of questioning of my noble friend Lord Purvis, when will the WTO be brought into that diplomacy? Have the Government already reached out to the WTO about these …..." Lord Scriven - View Speech
"The fact that somebody has a terminal diagnosis of six months automatically triggers SR1, so that part of the amendment is superfluous. There are things in amendments that automatically happen but which they would put in the Bill, but they do not need to be put in the Bill by …..." Lord Scriven - View Speech