Dr. Kristin Good:

To be clear, as minister Seymour outlined, the End of Life Choice Act has a lot of safeguards and, as I mentioned, is very process driven. This is not the way medical practitioners normally practise medicine. While there is a science to medicine, there is also an aspect of creativity where people have the choice to make their own decisions. There has had to be quite a lot of work with practitioners to ensure that they understand that they work within the very strict boundaries of the law, which they understand because it is part of their training. Sometimes, they say this is just not patient centred or they do not want to do this, but there has been a single breach around this, which we are managing at present. The vast majority, and we are talking about thousands of assessments, have been entirely within those extremely strict boundaries. I check that in every single form. The other statutory bodies are also responsible for accountability so it is more about an attitude rather than actual behaviours. That is something we have stressed in training.