Results 161–180 of 400 for speaker:Dr Peter Brand

Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill (28 Jan 2000)

Dr Peter Brand: I have not sought advice, but I immediately noticed that the Bill's title includes the words "prevention of euthanasia". However, the Bill does not address that; it deals with acts of omission versus acts of commission. It represents a missed opportunity and I am afraid that I shall vote against Second Reading.

Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill (28 Jan 2000)

Dr Peter Brand: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill (28 Jan 2000)

Dr Peter Brand: If God has decided to visit the old grandmother that the hon. Gentleman described, who is obviously in some distress with her Alzheimer's, with an illness that is potentially fatal, but treatable, are doctors not right to consider with the family whether that treatment should be given?

Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill (28 Jan 2000)

Dr Peter Brand: Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman agree that care should never be withdrawn? Tony Bland, for example, was cared for in his last days and weeks. We are really talking about quite different matters: one is caring; one is not actively treating.

Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill (28 Jan 2000)

Dr Peter Brand: I am surprised at the hon. Gentleman's interpretation of what I said. I said that the purpose of the withdrawal of treatment at that time—I was talking about a child, as he spoke about the grandson that he lost—was to allow nature to take its course and for death to occur. There is a vast difference between that and the hon. Gentleman's interpretation. That is the real argument that some...

Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill (28 Jan 2000)

Dr Peter Brand: I should be grateful if the hon. Gentleman expanded that point. Is he saying that non-intervention not to prolong life is not the same as non-intervention to stop life?

Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill (28 Jan 2000)

Dr Peter Brand: Having listened to the right hon. and learned Member for North-East Bedfordshire (Sir N. Lyell), and various points that have been made, I am persuaded that the Bill needs to go into Committee.

Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill (28 Jan 2000)

Dr Peter Brand: It is clear that hon. Members on both sides of the House go in for hyperbole. We all understand that care should always be there for the individual patient, so I do not think that the Spartan argument quite stands up.

Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill (28 Jan 2000)

Dr Peter Brand: That was a cheap intervention. I said at the outset that I opposed active euthanasia. Indeed, I voted against a ten-minute Bill on the subject presented by the hon. Member for Bassetlaw (Mr. Ashton).

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Waiting Lists (Treatments) ( 1 Feb 2000)

Dr Peter Brand: The Secretary of State will know that many patients languish in a sort of statistical purgatory while investigations are carried out and decisions to begin treatment are made. Is the right hon. Gentleman collecting information on the number of people who, having been seen by a consultant, are still waiting for a decision about treatment? Does not he consider it unacceptable that the number of...

Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (22 Mar 2000)

Dr Peter Brand: We clearly welcome the £2 billion in the Budget for the national health service, if only because the Government have recognised that the health service was desperately in need of an injection of resources and funds. The Government have abandoned their argument that it was no good throwing money at the NHS until they had completed restructuring and had trained expensive specialists at some...

Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (22 Mar 2000)

Dr Peter Brand: We believe in co-ordinated commissioning of care through the NHS jointly with social services. In fact, we would go further and combine the two functions. We also believe that there is a place for a mixed provider of care. We certainly would not treat providers differently. One of the real problems is that the NHS has locked itself away from the community. It is in the interests of the NHS...

Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (22 Mar 2000)

Dr Peter Brand: If we were in power, it would not be mythical; it would be real. It is sad that, in many health authority areas, the modernisation fund has had to be used for the waiting list initiative rather than for its proper purpose, which is to ensure that electronic communications between hospital departments and between hospitals and local communities get on stream. The fifth challenge is...

Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (22 Mar 2000)

Dr Peter Brand: I am not sure: it depends on one's definition of national health dentistry. The Government have some centralised initiatives, such as the phoneand-go clinics, and they have assured us that everyone will have access to treatment for dental pain and emergency measures, but that is not the same as national health dentistry as I would like it to be provided: that is, through mixed-practice...

Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (22 Mar 2000)

Dr Peter Brand: Will the hon. Gentleman accept that the perception of outputs after almost three years of Labour Government is even worse, and that is why we are happily blessed with the Budget infusion of £2 billion?

Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (22 Mar 2000)

Dr Peter Brand: No doubt the hon. Gentleman is aware of our shadow Budget, which put extra funding for the NHS at £2 billion.

Asbestos-related Diseases (23 Mar 2000)

Dr Peter Brand: I am grateful for the opportunity to raise what is an important issue to a modest but growing number of people. They suffer the results of working in industries that used asbestos. Asbestos can cause pleural thickening, which is not in itself a great problem, but it can lead to further disease. It can cause asbestosis, which can be a crippling respiratory disease, but most importantly, it can...

Asbestos-related Diseases (23 Mar 2000)

Dr Peter Brand: May I therefore say how grateful I am to have a Minister from the Department of Social Security responding to the debate? The rest of my remarks still apply.

Asbestos-related Diseases (23 Mar 2000)

Dr Peter Brand: I put it on record that my complaint and that of my constituents is not with the Minister's Department or the way the scheme operates. I know from my clinical experience how co-operative people in the Benefits Agency can be in these circumstances—they are invariably helpful. Will the Minister consider whether there is any chance of the companies currently at risk of litigation making...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Health Action Zones (28 Mar 2000)

Dr Peter Brand: I am sure that the Secretary of State will accept that all the country is a health action zone of one type or another, and that much work has been done to create the health improvement programmes that are the basis of health delivery in a given locality. Can the right hon. Gentleman assure us that the criteria set for the money flowing down into localities, and the bonus payments, will be...


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