Bill · started in the Commons

National Health Service (Right to Treatment) Bill

A Bill to ensure that medical treatment prescribed as necessary by a doctor or other medical professional must be provided unless the type of treatment is not approved by the Secretary of State or the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence; to establish a national register of cases where such prescribed treatment is refused; to introduce a mechanism for appeal against decisions about provision of medical treatments; and for connected purposes.

In progress Current stage: 2nd reading (Commons)

The story so farThe National Health Service (Right to Treatment) Bill was introduced in the House of Commons on 8 April 2014 by Hugh Bayley (Labour). It is now at second reading in the House of Commons. Second reading is the first debate on the overall principle of the bill; if the bill clears it, detailed committee scrutiny follows.

Progress through Parliament

  1. 1st reading Commons 8 Apr 2014
  2. 2nd reading Commons Current

Source: the official bill page. Last updated 15 May 2014.