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Latest news on the Access to Palliative Care and Treatment of Children Bill [HL] 2019-21

Second reading - the general debate on all aspects of the Bill - took place on 7 February.

Committee stage - line by line examination of the Bill - is yet to be scheduled.

Summary of the Access to Palliative Care and Treatment of Children Bill [HL] 2019-21

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