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Ilora Finlay, Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

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In 2007, Lady Finlay introduced a private members bill seeking to change the current system of organ donation from 'opt in' to 'opt out'. Parliamentary timing did not allow for this bill to proceed but the principle continues to be debated. Two years later she succeeded in changing government policy
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In March 2010, Baroness Finlay sponsored the Sunbeds (Regulation) Bill as it reached the House of Lords for scrutiny. With just weeks before the forthcoming general election, Baroness Finlay, with Government and Opposition front bench support, took the MP
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on organ donation to allow potential organ donors to be able to specify a family member or close friend to whom they wish to donate their organ(s).
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and is a Member of its inaugural Council. She is patron of the award-winning charity Students for Kids International Projects (1099804).
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In 2003 she proposed a bill to ban smoking in public buildings in Wales, three years before it was eventually implemented.
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In 2007 she was awarded the ePolitix Charity Champion Award for her work as a patron with the Shalom House Trust.
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Born the only daughter of Professor Charles Beaumont Benoy Downman, Finlay grew up in outer London. She attended
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Finlay became the first Consultant in Palliative Medicine in Wales in 1987. She was President of the
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In 2008 the Dods and Scottish Widows Women in Public Life Awards named her Peer of the Year.
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In 2014 the Livery Company of Wales’ awarded Finlay their outstanding achievement award.
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Initiative Honouree for her vigorous campaigning to improve the care of dying patients.
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are the unicorns. The unicorn's horn was anciently considered to be an all heal.
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She is a longstanding opponent of any change in the law on assisted suicide.
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Peers recommended by the House of Lords Appointments Commission
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Coat of arms of Ilora Finlay, Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
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In 2017, she was appointed one of two patrons of the
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She is a professor of 129:Learn how and when to remove this message 1094:21st-century Welsh women medical doctors 1089:20th-century Welsh women medical doctors 771:"Successful year for student volunteers" 1059:Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales 735:(30 March 2010). Retrieved 8 July 2014. 577: 1054:Life peeresses created by Elizabeth II 638: 636: 496: 484:In March 2015, Finlay was awarded the 416:'s foodbank network in Wales, and the 609: 607: 385:Baroness Finlay is a co-chair of the 337:Cardiff University School of Medicine 7: 396:Preventing Carbon Monoxide Poisoning 1009:Baroness Finlay, Grassroot Diplomat 1034:21st-century Welsh medical doctors 1029:20th-century Welsh medical doctors 940:Worshipful Livery Company of Wales 405:, which promotes palliative care. 347:. On 28 June 2001, she was made a 14: 709:Age Connects Cardiff and the Vale 424:She was a Founding Fellow of the 418:Motor Neurone Disease Association 502: 317:St Mary's University, Twickenham 25: 16:Welsh medical doctor (born 1949) 1064:Academics of Cardiff University 967:. 15 March 2015. Archived from 936:"MAJOR WLCOW AWARDS RECIPIENTS" 777:. 29 April 2009. 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