The Access to Medical Treatments (Innovation) Bill
October 13, 2015
Lord Saatchi has handed over the former Medical Innovation Bill to Chris Heaton-Harris, MP for Daventry.
Read moreLord Saatchi has handed over the former Medical Innovation Bill to Chris Heaton-Harris, MP for Daventry.
Read moreThe Medical Innovation Bill has today been introduced into the House of Commons as a Private Member's Bill by Chris Heaton-Harris MP.
Read moreThe comments from Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary, leave the Liberal Democrats politically isolated over their controversial decision to axe the Medical Innovation Bill
Read moreHow Nick Clegg blocked debate of the Bill and what happens next.
Read moreInnovation in medicine is essential. All that can be done for a patient who faces a poor medical prognosis must be done.
Read moreExclusive Plans to make it easier doctors to find cures for diseases by trying out new treatments on patients without the fear of being sued have been vetoed by the Liberal Democrats
Read moreNick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats have refused to debate the Medical Innovation Bill in the House of Commons in doing so they have killed the Bill. The Bill has been extensively debated four times in the House of Lords. It has been the subject of a Department of Health consultation, and the team have consulted […]
Read moreProfessor Jo Samanta - Reader in Medical Law at Leicester De Montfort Law School writes about the Medical Innovation Bill (Saatchi Bill) and the law and why post-hoc scrutiny of treatments (current status quo) is inadequate.
Read moreBen Williams' aggressive brain tumour was treated with conventional therapies - and with a mix of common drugs, including those for acne, insomnia and high blood pressure, as revealed in a new documentary. Could this approach work for others?
Read moreProf Chas Bountra, Oxford University, talks about his support for the Medical Innovation Bill and the innovative work he undertakes at Oxford University.
Read moreMy son Daniel, then aged 17, was diagnosed with a life-decimating bone cancer, Ewing’s sarcoma, in 2006. Lord Saatchi’s Bill has the laudable aim of putting the interests of seriously ill patients at the heart of decision-making. Everyone, surely, must support that objective.
Read moreThe Sunday Times have today published a letter in support of the Medical Innovation Bill from 100 patients and family who have lost loved ones.
Read moreProf Smith sat on the World Health Organisation panel which permitted the use of untested therapies for the fatal Ebola virus. He talks about the parallels with the Medical Innovation Bill.
Read moreLetter to the Telegraph published today regarding the Medical Innovation Bill (Saatchi Bill) from senior oncologists, professors across numerous disciplines, cancer and rare disease CEOs, research groups, early access to medicine campaigners and patient advocates.
Read moreA recent case highlighting how the present law is not clear.
Read moreMaurice Saatchi’s Medical Innovation Bill was passed by the House of Lords and sent to the Commons following its third reading in the House of Lords on 23rd January 2015.
Read moreHow will the Medical Innovation Bill support evidence based medicine - by Professor Walker
Read moreMy Medical Innovation Bill is nearly law, thanks to incredible support
Read moreThousands of Britons with cancer will be plunged into "great anxiety" because of cuts to crucial drug treatments announced on Monday, Lord (Maurice) Saatchi has warned.
Read moreFollowing the Committee Stage in the House of Lords on 24th October Lord Saatchi has tabled a set of amendments to be considered on Report on 12th December 2014.
Read moreCritics of the Medical Innovation Bill like to say that patients will be at risk from doctors trying out new treatments because they will somehow be protected from negligence claims. This is wrong for two reasons. Read on...
Read moreThere is a deep-rooted and complacent culture across substantial sections of the medical research community that all is rosy in the garden.
Read moreRadio 4’s PM programme contacted breast cancer surgeon Charlie Chan, a supporter of the Medical Innovation Bill, to talk about the use of untested medical interventions on Ebola patients.
Read moreDaniel Poulter, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health, has replied to a written answer from Jim Fitzpatrick MP (Poplar and Limehouse, Labour) on the Medical Innovation Bill.
Read moreMore than 40 medical professionals, including Prof Michael Rawlins - President of the Royal Society of Medicine and formerly a head of National Institute for Clinical Excellent, back the Medical Innovation Bill in a letter to The Telegraph.
Read moreThe new draft of the Medical Innovation Bill, which has its second reading in the House of Lords on June 27th 2014, is a strong and robust version of the Bill that has been improved by public consultation.
Read moreThe Times: A Conservative peer calls for doctors to be granted the freedom to try out new treatments on patients.
Read moreThe Executive Director of Teen Cancer America and former CEO of Teenage Cancer Trust explains why he supports the Bill.
Read moreFollowing a great debate in the House of Lords the Bill moves through to the committee stage.
Read moreWatch the second reading of the Bill in the House of Lords.
Read moreLouise Arnold tells the Express why her son needs the Medical Innovation Bill.
Read moreA new report on rise in deaths from rare cancers.
Read moreA technical overview from Daniel Greenberg, Parliamentary Counsel and author of the Bill.
Read moreOxford University have offered to manage an open access database of treatments and outcomes received under the Medical Innovation Bill.
Read moreA new Medical Innovation Bill has been drafted following the Department of Health’s public consultation which ended on 25 April 2014.
Read moreA view from breast cancer specialist surgeon Charlie Chan.
Read moreLetter to the Editor in response to the letter published Monday 28th April regarding the Medical Innovation Bill.
Read moreThe Department of Health’s consultation into the Medical Innovation Bill has closed and we now know that the evidence demonstrating a need for the Bill is compelling.
Read morePublished in the Telegraph today Lord Woolf, former Master of the Rolls and Lord Chief Justice, writes from the legal perspective why the Saatchi Bill is necessary and why it has his support.
Read moreJoin Dr Ranj as he hosts a Google Hangout debate on the Medical Innovation Bill.
Read moreOne for the diary - join us on April 22nd 2014 for a lively debate.
Read moreSir Michael Rawlins on why the Medical Innovation Bill is necessary.
Read moreJoin our Facebook chat tonight at 8pm.
Read moreProfessor David Walker explains why the Saatchi Bill will lead to new therapies for thousands of desperate patients.
Read moreSurgeon Geoffrey Keynes developed the lumpectomy for breast cancer in the face of global ridicule and hostility from fellow surgeons.
Read moreIn spite of medical advances over the last 50 years, many people across the world still die prematurely from cancer, heart disease, lung disease, and terrible degenerative diseases like muscular dystrophy and motor neurone disease.
Read moreThere are 33 days left of the Department of Health public consultation and we need your voice.
Read moreGuest post from George Freeman, MP for Mid Norfolk and Minister for Life Sciences.
Read moreDuring the recent Department of Health public consultation meeting in Cardiff (18 March 2014) attended by doctors, academics and patients, we got some questions on Twitter we discussed.
Read more‘Protect the patient: nurture the innovator’ writes Norman Williams, President of the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) in the March 2014 RCS bulletin.
Read moreThe Saatchi Bill team congratulates Empower Access to Medicine on their historic campaign win to fast-track innovative new medicines that are proved to be safe to patients.
Read moreThe Saatchi Bill will make it much easier for doctors to innovate safely in the interests of their patients.
Read moreLast week cancer bloggers, tweeters and patients united to make medical history in the House of Lords – at a Google Hangout in support of Maurice Saatchi’s Medical Innovation Bill.
Read moreMike Thomas gives a moving speech about his best friend Chloë Drury at the consultation launch in the House of Lords.
Read moreAlex Smith, whose son Harrison has Duchenne, writes a moving guest post on why the Medical Innovation Bill could help him.
Read moreThe Medical Innovation Bill, to be introduced by Lord Saatchi, is intended to help patients by allowing their doctors to be less constrained by clinical orthodoxy, writes Dr Lefever
Read moreGuest blog by Professor David Walker, Professor of Paediatric Oncology Faculty of Medicine Health Sciences, University of Nottingham
Read moreGuest blog post by Charley Kitley
Read moreGuest blog post by Claire Bullimore
Read moreBlog post by Dominic Nutt - a member of the Bill team.
Read moreGuest blog post by Kaz Molley founder of Womb Cancer Support UK
Read moreThe strength of public support for the Medical Innovation Bill (Saatchi Bill) has persuaded the Government to offer legislation along the lines of the Medical Innovation Bill, following a public consultation to start in January 2014 and report no later than May.
Read moreGuest blog from Chris Lewis.
Read moreSally Becker chats with BBC Women's Hour about the Saatchi Bill.
Read moreGuest blog post by Rachel Stevens
Read moreThe next important Parliamentary event for the Bill will take place on Friday 18th October.
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