Medical innovation: doctors and patients encouraged to give views
29 Apr 2014 02:46 PM
This consultation is now
closed.
The
Department of Health is asking for views on whether doctors are being held back
from using pioneering treatments because of the fear of being sued if something
goes wrong. We want to know if a proposed Medical Innovation Bill will both
encourage doctors to innovate in medical practice and bolster patient
safeguards.
The
draft bill hopes to clarify the existing law.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said:
We
want to make sure doctors are not held back if they want to use pioneering
treatments to offer a lifeline to dying patients. Innovation has always been at
the heart of the NHS and is essential for improving treatments and finding new
cures.
Find out more and have
your say.
The
consultation will run to 25 April.