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
The bill aims to clarify who is liable when a terminally ill patient is prescribed an unlicensed medicine or given a non-standard treatment, and to regulate the import, storage and use of equipment and unlicensed medicines for such treatments. It also includes related provisions under “connected purposes.”
The bill is currently at the 2nd reading in the House of Commons, meaning it is being debated in principle and would move to committee stage if supported.
Generated 21 February 2026
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.