Bill · started in the Commons

Treatment of Terminal Illness Bill

A Bill to make provision about the liability of practitioners, and of the organisation which employs the practitioner, where a practitioner prescribes an unlicensed medicine to or carries out a non-standard treatment on a person who is terminally ill; to make provision about the import, storage and use of equipment and unlicensed medicines for the purpose of such prescriptions or such treatment; and for connected purposes.

The story so farThe Treatment of Terminal Illness Bill was introduced in the House of Commons on 26 November 2024 by Dame Siobhain McDonagh (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.

Sponsor

• Dame Siobhain McDonagh Labour Primary sponsor

Progress through Parliament

Source: the official bill page. Last updated 6 May 2026.