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A lot of the engagement is between our officials and civil servants, and there is a code that governs that. I come back to my earlier point about independence and impartiality.
All that amendment 55 seeks to do is to create a code of practice to ensure that assisted dying interacts appropriately with hospices and other providers of palliative and end-of-life care.
We support the Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance’s definition of independent advocacy and the practice around it, working alongside the principal standards and codes of practice. That is important to protect the practice of independent advocacy and to define it correctly.
The term “Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis” has been replaced in clinical practice by “Juvenile Inflammatory Arthropathy” although no exact code is available for the latter term.
However, it has about 20 or 30 detailed pages of a governance code and supporting principles. If we are doing a Scottish code, we must replace or replicate what is in those pages, but the new code will be much broader than what the von Prondzynski review covered.