It would be hard to argue against any medical innovation that improves patient prognosis. However, a private members' bill, which was stopped in its tracks early in 2015, has returned to UK parliament in a new guise-and could become law by summer 2016. The Access to Medical Treatments (Innovation) Bill was brought forward by Daventry Conservative MP Chris Heaton-Harris and life sciences minister George Freeman, and is backed by the government. On 11 March 2016, the bill came closer to becoming law when it passed the committee stage in the House of Lords and it will now go to the third reading (yet to be scheduled).
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