Bill · started in the Lords

Access to Palliative Care and Treatment of Children Bill [HL]

A Bill to make provision for NHS service commissioners to ensure that persons for whom they have responsibility for commissioning physical and mental health services have access to specialist and generalist palliative care and support services; to enable hospices to access pharmaceutical services on the same basis as other services commissioned by a clinical commissioning group; and to make provision for treatment of children with a life-limiting illness

In progress Current stage: Committee stage (Lords)

The story so farThe Access to Palliative Care and Treatment of Children Bill was introduced in the House of Lords on 9 January 2020 by Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (Crossbench). It is now at committee stage in the House of Lords. At committee stage the bill is examined line by line and amendments can be made, before it returns for report stage.

Progress through Parliament

  1. 1st reading Lords 9 Jan 2020
  2. 2nd reading Lords 7 Feb 2020
  3. Committee stage Lords Current

Source: the official bill page. Last updated 5 May 2021.