Mr. Mark Murphy:

There will be no change to the practice of asking the family for consent or authorisation. That will happen anyway. That happens and it will happen. The only difference is a "No" register. The intensivists are a little worried that they will have to arguably waste valuable time consulting that register because the Bill insists that they consult the register before they proceed to ask the family. They must check that the person is not on the register. The Intensive Care Society is quite annoyed that its members will asked to do this, which, if one looks at the statistics, will probably turn out to be valid in 2% of the cases.