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On 3rd February, the Welsh Assembly government voted unanimously to reject the Medical Innovation Bill. Assembly Ministers from across the political spectrum were united in their condemnation of a bill that Mark Drakeford, Minister for Health and Social Services, described as “a solution in search of a problem, and not a very sound solution at that.”
The Medical Innovation Bill, more commonly referred to as the “Saatchi Bill”, is currently being debated in the House of Commons, having already passed through the Lords at the hands of its proposer, Lord Saatchi. If you have heard of this bill at all, you’ve probably heard of it as the Bill that will cure cancer. You may have heard that it will allow doctors, who are apparently terrified of the law, to create new treatments that will cure a whole host of terrible diseases.
