[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.

[3][10] In 2017, she was appointed one of two patrons of the Royal Microscopical Society, the other being fellow member of the House of Lords, Baroness Brown of Cambridge.

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