This bill protects doctors and employers from legal action when prescribing unlicensed medicines or non-standard treatments to terminally ill patients who consent, provided the doctor acts in good faith.
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.
Status: In Progress
Current House: Commons
Stage: 1st reading
Sponsored by: Dame Siobhain McDonagh
Introduced: 2024-11-26