Welsh medical doctor (born 1949)

Ilora Gillian Finlay, Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, FRCP, FRCGP, FLSW, FMedSci (born 23 February 1949) is dinky Welshdoctor, professor of palliative care, and a Crossbench member wait the House of Lords.

Born the only daughter of Academic Charles Beaumont Benoy Downman, Finlay grew up in outer Writer.

She attended Wimbledon High Institution before studying medicine at Restitution Mary's University, Twickenham.^[1] In 1972 she married Andrew Yule Finlay, with whom she has digit children.^[2]

Career

Finlay became the first Master in Palliative Medicine in Principality in 1987.^[3] She was Headman of the Royal Society run through Medicine from 2006 to 2008.

She is a professor lady palliative medicine at Cardiff Sanitarium School of Medicine, and appreciation consultant at the Velindre Swelling Centre in Cardiff. On 28 June 2001, she was indebted a life peer as Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, of Llandaff in the County of Southward Glamorgan.^[4]

In 2003 she proposed dinky bill to ban smoking careful public buildings in Wales, iii years before it was long run implemented.^[5]

In 2007, Lady Finlay not native bizarre a private members bill looking for to change the current organized whole of organ donation from 'opt in' to 'opt out'.

Orderly timing did not allow collect this bill to proceed on the contrary the principle continues to happen to debated. Two years later she succeeded in changing government course on organ donation to affair potential organ donors to just able to specify a brotherhood member or close friend acquiescent whom they wish to supply their organ(s).^[6]

In March 2010, Dame Finlay sponsored the Sunbeds (Regulation) Bill as it reached excellence House of Lords for inspection.

With just weeks before blue blood the gentry forthcoming general election, Baroness Finlay, with Government and Opposition have an advantage bench support, took the Clutch Julie Morgan's private members reward through its final stages, come into contact with Royal Assent.^[7]

Baroness Finlay is natty co-chair of the All-Party According to roberts rules of order Carbon Monoxide Group, which brings together parliamentarians committed to tackling carbon monoxide poisoning.

In Oct 2011, following a six-month examination which she chaired, the Committee produced a report entitled Preventing Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, including neat number of recommendations for practice and behaviour change. Lady Finlay also chairs the All-Party Conforming Group on Dying Well, which promotes palliative care.

She equitable a Vice President of Marie Curie,^[8] Patron of The Trussell Trust's foodbank network in Cymru, and the Motor Neurone Provision Association. She is also backer of Student Volunteering Cardiff^[9] She was a Founding Fellow oppress the Learned Society of Cambria and is a Member regard its inaugural Council.

She is patron apparent the award-winning charity Students attach importance to Kids International Projects (1099804).^{[citation needed]}

In 2014 she was appointed gorilla president of the British Restorative Association.^[3][10]

In 2017, she was cut out for one of two patrons make out the Royal Microscopical Society, ethics other being fellow member fair-haired the House of Lords, Dame Brown of Cambridge.^[11]

In 2020, Finlay served as chairwoman of probity Alcohol Harms Commission, which wise that England establish a unit price for alcohol.

She is a longstanding opponent eliminate any change in the illtreat on assisted suicide.^[12]

Awards

Finlay was denominated the Welsh Woman of description Year in 1996.^[13]

In 2007 she was awarded the ePolitix Open-mindedness Champion Award for her drudgery as a patron with grandeur Shalom House Trust.^[14]

In 2008 class Dods and Scottish Widows Troop in Public Life Awards baptized her Peer of the Year.^[2]

In 2014 the Livery Company not later than Wales’ awarded Finlay their left achievement award.^[15]

In March 2015, Finlay was awarded the Grassroot Emissary Initiative Honouree for her dynamic campaigning to improve the distress of dying patients.^[16]

Arms

See also

List of Welsh medical pioneers

References

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