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1 MEDICAL INNOVATION BILL SESSION BRIEFING NOTE Updated: June 10 th 2014 Updated June 10 th 20142 CONTENTS Foreword - 3 What does the Bill do? - 4 Who wants the Bill? - 5 Who s still to be convinced? - 6 The law before and after - 7 Consultation response analysis - 10 The Plan for What can you do to help? - 16 Contact the team - 17 Annex A - New Text of the Bill Annex B - Explanatory Notes to the Bill Annex C - Legal Analysis Annex D - Patients Stories Annex E - Doctors Stories Annex F - Medical Organisations Annex G - Secretary of State for Health Annex H - Frequently Asked Questions Updated June 10 th 20143 FOREWORD Session will be the third consecutive Session in which I have introduced my Medical Innovation Bill. In the first Session there was no time to do more than have one debate in the Lords. In the second Session we achieved Government support for the Bill, as set out in the Written Ministerial Statement of 22 nd November This Session I hope that we will achieve Royal Assent, with your help. My Bill is about ensuring that every patient knows that everything is being done that can reasonably be done to give him or her a chance of life. Patients demand that; and the health service must be empowered to deliver. At present, when an innovative treatment is suggested, a red light flashes in front of the doctor s eyes: step away from the path of standard treatment and you risk litigation or disciplinary proceedings do nothing, and you are safe. This light by no means stops all innovation but it reinforces a culture of fear and defensive medicine in the NHS, which is growing as a result of an increasingly risk-averse NHS. In turn, many doctors feel compelled to stick to the well-worn path of standardised treatment. This is right when those standard treatments work. It is not acceptable in cases where standard treatments are known only to lead to the death of the patient. In these cases, a doctor and their patient are together entitled to try something new. My Bill replaces the red light with an amber light, that says proceed with caution. This Bill will stop quacks more effectively than the law does at present; but it will give responsible doctors who want to innovate the ability to innovate responsibly, with clarity and certainty that the law will support them. You can read more about how my Bill does that in this briefing note. Please read on; please become part of the debate about the Bill; and please help us all to empower patients and doctors as soon as possible. This Bill is urgent because every life matters, and too many have been wasted. Thank you, Maurice Saatchi Updated June 10 th 20144 WHAT DOES THE BILL DO? The Bill has one main operative provision: it declares that it is not negligent for a doctor to innovate if he or she follows an accountable and transparent system when deciding whether and how to innovate. In particular, if there is a Multi-Disciplinary Team in the doctor s hospital, that team must be involved in the decision. And a doctor must always inform his or her Responsible Officer of any proposed innovation, so that it can form part of the responsible officer s general oversight functions. Where there is no multi-disciplinary team, or where it does not include relevant expertise, a doctor will be able to find other ways of including enough relevant colleagues in the decision-making process to satisfy the requirements of an accountable and transparent system. If the doctor cannot do so, s/he will not be covered by the Bill. The Bill includes mention of multi-disciplinary teams and responsible officers as specific components of an accountable and transparent system, but apart from that the medical profession will be left to determine best practice as to what an accountable and transparent system should be. Doctors are the right people to regulate their own best practice. The stated purpose of the Bill (which the courts will consider if they are required to pronounce on the meaning and effect of the Bill) is to encourage responsible innovation and to discourage reckless innovation. The Bill expressly preserves the existing common law (the Bolam and Bolitho test). That law says that innovation is not negligent if it is supported by a responsible body of medical opinion based on good science. The problem with the common law test is that it is applied after the event in court, by marshalling opposing teams of doctors. The Bill allows doctors to be certain before they innovate that they have done it in a manner that will be supported and protected by the courts. The Bill does not change the existing law that requires patients to consent to treatment. The purpose of the Bill is to empower patients to demand that every possible route should be tried to prolong their life and to improve its quality. It will not allow anyone to be subjected to treatment without informed consent. Nor will it allow patients to be used as guinea pigs: the Bill expressly states that it is only about treatment that the doctor, supported by suitably qualified medical peers, is satisfied is in the patient s best interests. More details about how the Bill will work and what it means can be found in the Explanatory Notes at Annex B and in the Frequently Asked Questions at Annex H. Updated June 10 th 20145 WHO WANTS THE BILL? Patients Of the more than 18,000 responses to the Department for Health s Consultation in 2014 supporting the Bill, many thousand were from patients, determined that they should be empowered to ask that their doctors try everything, including innovative treatments where standard procedure holds out no realistic hope of life or quality of life. Illustrative patients responses received are shown at Annex C. Doctors Many of those who responded to the consultation supporting the Bill are doctors, determined that the law should support responsible innovation and not deter it. Illustrative doctors responses are shown at Annex D. The Medical Profession Some key organisations responded to the consultation supporting the Bill. Their responses are shown at Annex E. The Government The Secretary of State for Health wrote in November 2013: The Medical Innovation (No 2) Bill correctly identifies the threat of litigation as one such barrier. Their hope is that legislation to clarify when medical innovation is responsible will reduce the risks of clinical negligence claims. Their cause is a noble one, which has my wholehearted support. So the government commits today to carrying out a full consultation and will seek to legislate at the earliest opportunity, subject to the results of the consultation. The full text of the Written Ministerial Statement is at Annex F. Senior Parliamentarians Support for the Bill within the House of Lords has come from some of the most senior former judges in the country, [including the former Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf, the former Lord Chancellor Lord Mackay of Clashfern and the former President of the Family Division Lady Butler-Sloss]. The Bill is also supported by some of the most distinguished medical peers including General Medical Council Member Professor Lord Kakkar. Updated June 10 th 20146 WHO S STILL TO BE CONVINCED? Not every response to the Department for Health consultation supported the Bill. Some individuals and organisations expressed concerns. However, following the consultation, we believe that the concerns have been met and that this new, robust draft will find favour from many who harboured doubts. The two most frequently expressed concerns were: (a) that there is insufficient evidence that the Bill is needed; and (b) that the Bill may encourage quackery. As to the first, the consultation itself established the evidence-base for the Bill more effectively than ever before. As illustrated in Annexes C and D, thousands of patients and doctors have come forward to provide evidence that the law in its present form acts as a deterrent to responsible innovation. As to the second, consultees raised many detailed concerns about the wording of the Bill, and how its details might appear to support quackery and to distract doctors from focusing on evidence-based medicine, which we all agree is the best form of medicine where evidence is available. Many of these details did not feature in my original Bill, but formed part of the draft attached to the Department s Consultation Paper. To be clear, the new draft makes it an explicit requirement that the doctor wishing to offer an innovative treatment must consult with suitably qualified medical experts. In short, a doctor could not rely on the Bill without peer consensus. The Bill for Session is set out in Annex A: it is the shortest of all the versions of the Bill so far, and it reduces the Bill to its essential message innovate by following a responsible process with the support of a responsible body of medical opinion, and you can be confident that the law will support you; innovate in a reckless manner without the support of your colleagues, and the law will not protect you. As a result of these changes, we hope that all or most of the individuals and organisations who expressed concerns about the Bill during the consultation process will now be reassured that their concerns have been met. We look forward to continuing the debate about the Bill during its passage through Parliament. Updated June 10 th 20147 THE LAW BEFORE AND AFTER The leading case in this area is still that of Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 WLR 582; in Mr Justice McNair s judgment in that case he said at page 258: The test is the standard of the ordinary skilled man exercising and professing to have that special skill. If a surgeon fails to measure up to that standard in any respect, he has been negligent. The result of this is that a doctor deciding how to treat a particular case starts with the knowledge that as soon as he or she moves away from existing and established standards within the profession, there is an automatic and serious risk that he or she will be found guilty of negligence if the treatment is less successful than hoped. As Lord Browne Wilkinson said in the House of Lords in the case of Bolitho v City and Hackney Health Authority [1998] AC 232: The locus classicus of the test for the standard of care required of a doctor or any other person professing some skill or competence is the direction to the jury given by Mr Justice McNair in Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee I myself would prefer to put it this way, that he is not guilty of negligence if he has acted in accordance with the practice accepted as proper by a responsible body of medical men skilled in that particular art Putting it the other way round, a man is not negligent, if he is acting in accordance with such a practice, merely because there is a body of opinion which take a contrary view. The Bolam test is sometimes turned around and becomes the proposition that it is very difficult to prove negligence if the doctor can show that he or she did what others would have done in the same position as a result of established practice. Illustration of how the Bill would work in practice Dr A is the consultant in charge of treating Patient B for a heart condition. At a meeting with Patient B, his wife mentions having seen mention in the press of a new kind of non-surgical treatment that is thought to be more effective than anything presently available and that might make surgery (with its attendant risks) unnecessary. Dr A agrees to investigate. On investigation, Dr A finds that the new treatment has not been tested in clinical trials and is not the subject of any published medical research in relation to heart disease. But she recalls reading a paper on the use of a similar treatment for Updated June 10 th 20148 cancer, based on which she thinks there are good reasons why it might be an effective treatment for heart disease in certain circumstances. At present, Dr A may feel that the safest course is simply to report back to Patient B and his wife that the new treatment is not the subject of published research, and that she is therefore unable to advise anything other than the standard surgical procedure. She will be worried that if she applies the new non-surgical treatment and Patient B dies earlier than would be expected statistically with surgical intervention, disciplinary or legal proceedings may be taken against her, perhaps by another member of Patient B s family. She may be worried that should that happen, she would have to find a panel of experts in favour of the new treatment to oppose to a panel in favour of standard treatment produced by the claimant or complainant, with a necessarily uncertain outcome. Under the Bill, if Dr A were instinctively impressed by the arguments in favour of the new treatment, she would be able to use the Bill as, in effect, statutory support describing a paradigm process for her decision. In particular She will ask herself why any research in relation to the cancer treatment has not been replicated for heart disease (for which a range of answers might be possible, perhaps based on timing or frequency of Patient B s exact condition). She will also consider the risks of the treatment proposed, for which purpose she may be able to draw on adverse-reaction or other data in relation to the cancer treatment. She will consider how urgent the surgical intervention is and whether delay pending investigation of the possible effects of the new treatment might make it impossible to carry out the surgery if it then became indicated. She will consider the strength of Patient B s feelings and those expressed by his wife; and she will build into the process by which she usually obtains informed consent an appraisal of the media piece that they originally found, and an analysis of their hopes and expectations, from a medical perspective. Dr A will then devise a system for the taking of her decision whether to apply the new treatment, based on the factors explored above. Depending on her position within a clinical team within a hospital, she will apply an appropriate process for consulting her seniors (if any). If she is the most senior and experienced doctor in her hospital, she may decide to hold minuted telephone consultations with one or more respected colleagues in other hospitals, noting their agreement or disagreement with her instinctive inclination towards or against administering the new treatment. Her hospital may have put in place a system for cascading proposals to other disciplines and expertise within the hospital, in which case she will comply with that procedure. Updated June 10 th 20149 Dr A will be able to contact her insurers and explain to them that she proposes to depart from the standard treatment in Patient B s case; she will be able to explain that she is following the Bill s procedure, and she will be able to provide them with written records showing how the decision is being taken and the considerations on which it is based. She will not have to use any special form for those records, and she will be able to use the notes that, as a responsible clinician, she would have expected to take in any event. (As experience of operating under the Bill develops it is possible that a degree of standardisation of documentation might emerge; but there is no intention or expectation that it will be more lengthy or more demanding than that indicated by best practice at present.) Finally, Dr A will return to Patient B and explain her decision. They will talk it through, and a signed copy of the audit trail will form an Annex to the informed consent form which Patient B will be asked to sign in the normal course of events before treatment (whether standard surgical intervention or the new form of treatment) is commenced. She will be confident that, should the treatment be challenged later in the light of Patient B s experience, she will be able to show the courts that her decision was based on the statutory codification of clinical bestpractice; and that the courts will review her decision in the light of how and why it was taken, and not simply by examining opposed ranks of experts commissioned by the two sides after the event. (As experience of the Bill develops, she may also become confident that lawyers are less likely than at present to recommend litigation in a case where the statutory process has been rigorously followed.) Updated June 10 th 201410 CONSULTATION RESPONSE ANALYSIS Introduction: The Secretary of State for Health initiated the consultation in his Parliamentary statement of 22 November 2013: The Department of Health (DoH) ran the consultation which began on February 27th and closed on April 25th Following several meetings with the DoH it was agreed we the DoH and the Medical Innovation Team would work together to ensure the public could respond to the consultation using a choice of channels. For example the DoH designed an online platform, hosted on their website, to gather responses. They also initiated discussions on doctor.net, encouraged respondents to , write and attend a host of public meets hosted by the Doh together with the Medical Innovation Team. The questions placed on the DoH website was only one of many options which the DoH made available to respondents. This is standard DoH procedure. As part of this, and with the support and agreement of the DoH, the Medical Innovation Bill team encouraged as many people to respond as possible in order to drive a robust data set on which to base a clear recommendation to the Secretary of State. In conjunction with the DoH, the Bill team accordingly opened numerous response channels to stakeholders by running a media and social media publicity campaign, predominantly but not exclusively, with the Daily Telegraph as a media partner. (The Bill team did not pay the Telegraph, this was an editorial decision taken independently by the Telegraph). With agreement from the DoH the Bill team designed an embeddable web form that enabled submissions, both positive and negative, to the consultation via the official DoH consultation address. Submissions were sent directly and simultaneously to the DoH official and the Saatchi Bill team database without any interference from the Bill team. The web form was embedded on our own website, The Telegraph online and was hosted on the websites of numerous patient groups, rare disease charities and supportive individuals. We also ran a change.org petition enabling us to solicit responses from an even wider audience.11 Analysis: At the outset, the DoH team stated that a good response would be anything over 600 responses. The total number of unique responses generated by the Medical Innovation Bill team official consultation channels was 18,535. Of those 18,502 were in favour of the Bill and only 33 against. To this must be added 170 responses generated via DoH official consultation activity channels (detailed above). The responses can be broadly divided into three categories. 1. The thousands of patients and relatives, individual doctors, institutions and other stakeholders who overwhelmingly support the Bill. 2. A minority, significant nonetheless, of individuals and institutions who support the principles of the original draft Bill, but do not feel those principles are met nor expressed adequately within the previous draft. 3. A smaller minority opposed to the Bill, comprising in part, but not exclusively, of medical negligence lawyers, individuals opposed to quackery and some institutions.12 Why Patients Support the Bill The support from patients is straightforward and centres around patients and relatives of patients, often with incurable diseases for which standard treatments are known not to work and for which there is a limited evidence base to develop new and effective treatments. It is worth noting that the majority of cancer deaths (around 52 per cent) are a result of cancers outside the big four that is, breast, bowel, lung and prostate. (Source: Cancer52.org). For such rare cancers, there is little research and consequently little evidence on which to base effective new treatments. This is in part the case because it is difficult to recruit enough patients for trials and because there is no real market for any drugs that may be developed as a result of those trials. Therefore the evidence base for many rarer diseases remains patchy and does not drive new, effective and innovative treatments. Patients with rare diseases understand this very well. And while they agree that randomised trials driving new and robust evidence is the gold standard of medical science, randomised trials do not fit so well for the rare disease profile. This is why they support the Bill because they want their doctor to be secure and safe in trying new treatments on them, outside of the trial straitjacket, which may prolong or save their lives. They also wish for their lives and deaths to mean something. That is, they wish for their treatment to add to the sum total of medical knowledge. They wish in death to leave a legacy, rather as an organ donor does. This is in stark contradiction to those specific cases where the standard treatment is known to lead only to the death of the patient the meaningless repetition of a failed experiment which does not add to scientific knowledge and yet still leads to the certain death of the patient.13 Why Doctors Support the Bill Many doctors responded to the consultation. Broadly they supported the contention that there is a growing cultural lag on innovation within the NHS as a result, in part of increasing litigation against NHS trusts by patients. In the past financial year the total sum of monies paid out to litigants reached 1.2bn. While the reality is that the vast majority of cases do not relate to failed and negligent attempts to innovate (the lion s share of pay-outs relates to lifetime care for negligence in regards to childbirth), doctors have a fear of litigation which can act as a barrier to innovation. Add to this the post-shipman settlement and tighter and centralising influence of NICE, it is no wonder that in many cases, doctors will prefer to stick to the well-worn path of standard care even when, in some cases, it is known to be largely ineffective. In short, there is a culture of conservatism which stifles innovation. Doctors responding to the consultation wish to break free from the shackles of defensive medicine carefully and appropriately and in the interests of their patients. Concerns and answers Concerns expressed were of two types. The first was that there was no evidence that a Bill of this nature was needed, and that innovation was happening already and innovation was already protected in law (under the Bolam-Bolitho test which allows a doctor to defend innovative treatment if a panel of experts in court also support that innovation).14 However, evidence collected from the public consultation strongly suggests otherwise. Many doctors told us that they fear moving away from standard procedures. Whether this fear is well-founded or not, it is clear that there is uncertainty in the medical profession and this Bill will remedy this by offering clarity and protection in advance of any innovative treatment. As Prof Mike Rawlins, President, Royal Society of Medicine and former chair of NICE, put it: A number of legal authorities have pointed out that departing from what is regarded as established practice or the standard of care leaves a doctor open to an action for negligence. The Medical Innovation Bill attempts to rectify this situation. I believe that the use of the provisions in the draft Medical Innovation Bill offer benefits to patients especially those with rarer diseases as well as to the furtherance of medical science. The evidence also suggests there is confusion in the medical profession as regards to the law. Many doctors fear moving away from standard procedures, others say the law protects them sufficiently already. The conclusion that can be drawn is that there is a distinct lack of understanding of the Bolam-Bolitho defence and the case law around medical negligence. This being so, the Bill will clarify and simplify once and for all the law by statute. Crucially, doctors now face the possibility of trial for negligence if they innovate. The Medical Innovation Bill means that those that avail themselves of it are protected in advance of the innovative treatment. This means they can proceed with clarity and confidence. Thus, the Bill removes the very fear real or imagined of a claim for medical negligence should an innovative treatment fail. It gives the doctor confidence to proceed in advance knowing that a claim will not be made. This, in turn, will help change the culture of conservatism in medical science. The second concern expressed centred on the fear that the Bill would expose patients to the maverick doctor acting alone.15 The express intent of this Bill is to do the very opposite, by ensuring that no doctor can act alone but instead must consult a group of relevantly qualified medical experts and peers as well as informing the responsible officer. 1 Unless there is general consensus support for the proposed innovation, the doctor will not be able to rely on the Bill in order to proceed. This rightly sets a much higher test than the Mental Health and Abortion Acts in regards to sign off for interventions such as sectioning a patient or undertaking an abortion. The patient must also consent to the innovative treatment too. However, the draft Bill that was opened to consultation lacked precision and clarity on this point. The new draft Bill is clear and explicit there can be no protection under the Bill without following a clear and transparent process involving a panel of relevant experts and the responsible officer. Although some legal professionals and bodies working in the field of medical negligence may remain unconvinced of the need for the Bill, overall, the consultation was effective. It produced a clear and overwhelming majority in favour of the Bill, it highlighted and crystallised concerns and has therefore facilitated a clear and robust redrafting which demonstrably meets those concerns while remaining true to the principles of the Bill, to encourage innovation and to deter reckless experimentation. An ancillary but pertinent issue was also raised. Many also argued that for the Bill to work and to drive new treatments for hard to cure and currently fatal diseases, data from innovative treatments must be collected and be capable of being shared among patients and doctors. The Bill team does not wish the Bill to be used as a guise for reckless experimentation and thus the Bill states that it may only be used in the best interests of the individual patient. It is, however, in the interests of both the individual patient and others that evidence and data from innovative treatments should be collected centrally and made available to all. The Bill team is committed to working with Oxford University who have agreed to develop a method of data collection and sharing in relation to innovative treatments arising from the Bill. Specially, following feedback from the consultation, we are committed to including an obligation on doctors that they must register innovative interventions in order to be protected by the Bill. We will do this as part of the statutory process during the Public Bill Committee Stage in the House of Commons 116 THE PLAN FOR Parliamentary timetable The new Bill will be introduced into the House of Lords on 5th June - the day after State Opening of the new Session - and will be printed, together with Explanatory Notes, the following day. The date for the Second Reading will be set by the Lords Business Managers following introduction, and it is hoped that it will occur before the Summer Recess. Subject to the progress of business and to the Bill finding favour in the Lords, it is hoped to take it through all its Lords stages before the Summer Recess and to have it reach the Commons when they return in the autumn. The Bill will then have a Second Reading in the Commons in the autumn: that stage may take place with or without a debate, depending on circumstances. The Bill will then be sent to a Public Bill Committee for line-by-line scrutiny. In Committee it will be possible to make any necessary amendments to reflect points made in the Lords and Commons debates, and to adopt any amendments proposed by the Government. It is hoped that the Bill will be out of Committee by early in 2015, following which its final Commons stages, and an opportunity for the Lords to consider any amendments proposed by the Commons, should leave comfortable room for Royal Assent before Parliament is dissolved for the May 2015 General Election17 WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP? This Bill would not have got as far as it has today without the support of doctors, patients, judges, journalists, bloggers and a wide range of interests. Your support will be the vital ingredient to ensure Royal Assent this Session. Here is how you can help. Patients and family üü or tweet your MP ask him or her to support the Medical Innovation Bill. üü Sign the petition at https://www.change.org/en-gb/petitions/support-themedical-innovation-bill Doctors and lawyers üü Lobby your professional organisations to ensure that they support the Medical Innovation Bill. üü Write to your MP ask him or her to support the Medical Innovation Bill. üü Offer your time to contribute to a Parliamentary briefing on the Bill so that MPs and peers understand how it will work in practice.18 CONTACT THE TEAM Legal and Parliamentary Issues Daniel Greenberg Parliamentary Counsel, Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP Media and social media/digital Please contact Dominic Nutt and Liz Scarff19 ANNEX A DRAFT TEXT OF THE BILL Draft of a Bill to make provision about innovation in medical treatment. BE IT ENACTED by the Queen s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1 Responsible innovation (1) The purpose of this Act is to encourage responsible innovation in medical treatment (and accordingly to deter reckless irresponsible innovation). (2) It is not negligent for a doctor to decide to depart from the existing range of accepted treatments for a condition if the decision is taken in accordance with a process which is accountable, transparent and allows full consideration of all relevant matters. (3) That process must include (a) consultation with appropriately qualified colleagues, including any relevant multi-disciplinary team; (b) notification in advance to the doctor s responsible officer; (c) consideration of any opinions or requests expressed by or on behalf of the patient; (d) obtaining any consents required by law; and (e) consideration of all matters that appear to the doctor to be reasonably necessary to be considered in order to reach a clinical judgment, including assessment and comparison of the actual or probable risks and consequences of different treatments. (4) Nothing in this section (a) permits a doctor to administer treatment for the purposes of research or for any purpose other than the best interests of the patient, or20 (b) abolishes any rule of the common law in accordance with which a decision to innovate is not negligent if supported by a responsible body of medical opinion. (5) In this section (a) doctor means a person listed in the register of medical practitioners under section 2 of the Medical Act 1983, (b) responsible officer has the same meaning as in Part 5A of that Act, and (c) a reference to treatment of a condition includes a reference to its management (and a reference to treatment includes a reference to inaction). 2 Technical provision (1) This Act comes into force on Royal Assent. (2) This Act extends only to England and Wales. (3) This Act may be cited as the Medical Innovation Act 2015. View more
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