Member

Briefly, Amendment 48 would ensure that the definition of “appropriate medical treatment” has regard to the principle of therapeutic benefit established in the Bill, which addresses the effectiveness and appropriateness of treatment. Therapeutic benefit is one of the four principles underlying the Bill, which are all identified in the independent review. Despite the importance of ensuring that therapeutic benefit guides many of the important changes that we are talking about in the Bill, as currently drafted the words “therapeutic benefit” are found only once, to be inserted in Section 118 of the Act to ensure its inclusion in the code of practice, alongside other principles.