Medical Innovation Bill [HL]

Page 2, line 5, at end insert—

“( )     The steps that must be taken by virtue of subsection (3)(e) include the
recording in the patient’s notes of details relating to—

(a)   the views obtained under subsection (3)(a),

(b)   the doctor’s decision to depart from the existing range of accepted
medical treatments for the patient’s condition, and

(c)   the proposed treatment.”

Page 2, line 6, after “section” insert—

“(a)   applies in relation to treatment carried out for the purposes of
medical research;”

Page 2, line 6, leave out “for the purposes of research or”

Page 2, line 7, at end insert—

“( )     Nothing in this section applies in relation to treatment which is carried out
solely for cosmetic purposes.”

Page 2, line 17, at end insert “, or

(b)   is to be read as limiting the circumstances in which any such rule of
the common law may be relied on (including, for example, where
emergency treatment is required).”

Page 2, line 19, leave out paragraph (a) and insert—

“( )   any decision by a doctor to depart from the existing range of
accepted medical treatments for a condition in accordance with
section 1 does not prejudice the doctor’s ability, in relation to the
departure, to rely on any rule of the common law referred to in
subsection (1)(a);”

Page 2, line 22, leave out “subsection (1)” and insert “subsection (1)(a)”