A Bill to make provision about the liability of practitioners, and of the organisation which employs the practitioner, where a practitioner prescribes an unlicensed medicine to or carries out a non-standard treatment on a person who is terminally ill; to make provision about the import, storage and use of equipment and unlicensed medicines for the purpose of such prescriptions or such treatment; and for connected purposes.
House of Commons
Dame Siobhain McDonaghLabour (Co-op)
3 March 2025
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This bill would set out who is legally responsible when a clinician prescribes an unlicensed medicine or carries out a non-standard treatment for someone who is terminally ill. It also covers rules on importing, storing and using equipment and unlicensed medicines for such treatments, and related issues. The bill is currently being debated in the House of Commons, introduced by Dame Siobhain McDonagh.
The bill has completed its first reading in the Commons and is at the second reading as of March 2025. If it passes this stage, it would move to committee stage and subsequent readings.
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The next stage for this Bill, Second reading, is scheduled to take place on Friday 14 March 2025.
This is a Private Members' Bill and was introduced to Parliament on Tuesday 26 November 2024 under the Ten Minute Rule.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
