I’ve heard Lord Saatchi and others talk about the Bill ‘changing medical culture’. What does this mean?

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Over time, the Bill will, we believe, encourage innovation and in turn support the development of better treatments and cures for all manner of diseases, conditions and cancers.

It will foster a spirit of innovation, which will advance medical science and discovery in the interests of patients.

At the same time it will act against the maverick and the snake oil salesman. The Bill will be a catalyst for change.

 

Lord Kakkar - Medical Innovation Bill
Lord Kakkar – Medical Innovation Bill

Lord Kakkar, Professor of Surgery at University College in London and a member of the General Medical Council said at the House of Lords Committee stage 24th October 2014

‘…this is a vitally important Bill to drive forward the practicalities of innovation in clinical practice. I hope that it will also drive forward a positive culture of putting innovation at the heart of all clinical thinking.’

 

 

Earl Howe - Medical Innovation Bill
Earl Howe – Medical Innovation Bill

Lord Earl Howe, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Quality said at the House of Lords Committee stage 24th October 2014

‘…We have silos of innovation and forward-thinking practice throughout the health service. The challenge has been to spread that innovative behaviour more widely and for the diffusion of innovative treatments to become second nature to the health service. It is a cultural issue.’

Read the full text of the House of Lords committee debate in Hansard.

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