PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
ADVANCE CARE PLANNING (12 June 2018)

That this House welcomes the publication of Macmillan Cancer Support's new report Missed
Opportunities, that examines the role Advance Care Planning (ACP) can play in ensuring that a dying person's wishes are met; understands that there are many barriers that can prevent health and social care professionals initiating conversations about an individual's end of life care wishes; notes that the pressure to stay positive and support people to fight cancer can, in some cases, become a barrier to open and honest conversations about dying; recognises that ACP conversations can play a crucial role in allowing people to have genuine choice about how they are cared for and where they spend their last days and hours; and encourages further action from Governments across the UK to ensure that professionals are better enabled to have those conversations and that the system is adequately resourced to meet patients' preferences.


Sponsored by:
Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrat)