Ilora Gillian Finlay, Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, is a Welsh doctor, professor of palliative medicine, and an Independent Crossbench member of the House of Lords.

She is the immediate past president of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Lady Finlay is a professor of palliative medicine at Cardiff University School of Medicine, and is consultant at the Velindre cancer centre in Cardiff.

In 2001, she was made a life peer as Baroness Finlay of Llandaff. In 2003 she proposed a bill to ban smoking in Public buildings in Wales, three years before it was eventually implemented in the principality.^[1]

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.

In 2009, Baroness Finlay succeeded in changing government policy on organ donation to allow potential organ donors to be able to specify a family member of close friend to whom they wish to donate their organ(s).

Baroness Finlay chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group on Dying Well (www.dyingwell.org.uk). This group of MP's and Peers was established to promote palliative care and oppose legalised euthanasia.

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• Baroness Finlay of Llandaff at TheyWorkForYou.com
• Velindre NHS Trust