[5] In 2007, Lady Finlay introduced a private members bill seeking to change the current system of organ donation from 'opt in' to 'opt out'.

With just weeks before the forthcoming general election, Baroness Finlay, with Government and Opposition front bench support, took the MP Julie Morgan's private members bill through its final stages, to Royal Assent.

In October 2011, following a six-month inquiry which she chaired, the Group produced a report entitled Preventing Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, including a number of recommendations for policy and behaviour change.

She is a Vice President of Marie Curie,[8] Patron of The Trussell Trust's foodbank network in Wales, and the Motor Neurone Disease Association.

She is also patron of Student Volunteering Cardiff[9] She was a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and is a Member of its inaugural Council.

[15] In March 2015, Finlay was awarded the Grassroot Diplomat Initiative Honouree for her vigorous campaigning to improve the care of dying patients.