Monday, 2 March 2015

Lib Dems veto Saatchi's medical innovation bill

Lib Dems veto Saatchi's medical innovation bill Health minister cites ‘risk of unintended consequences’ of law to allow doctors to use innovative treatments when other options are exhausted

The Liberal Democrats have vetoed a proposed law seeking to give doctors legal protection to use innovative treatments on patients when other options have been exhausted.

The Lib Dem health minister, Norman Lamb, said he wanted to avoid “the risk of unintended consequences” of Lord Saatchi’s medical innovation bill, which went unopposed in a third reading by the House of Lords and was set to go to the Commons. Continue reading... The Guardian

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