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Lord Bassam of Brighton to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether the ability of NHS doctors to provide the most clinically appropriate treatment to patients is being constrained by rules imposed by the General Medical Council, which are interpreted by doctors to limit them to using drugs within the scope of EU marketing authorisations and therefore may prevent doctors from exercising their clinical judgment to provide off-label and unlicensed medicines to NHS patients when it is clinically appropriate to do so.  HL4182

Question HL4182: tabled on 14 December 2017 and due for answer by 2 January 2018

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Lord Bassam of Brighton to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether the ability of NHS doctors to provide the most clinically appropriate treatment to patients is being constrained by rules imposed by the General Medical Council, which are interpreted by doctors to limit them to using drugs within the scope of EU marketing authorisations and therefore may prevent doctors from exercising their clinical judgment to provide off-label and unlicensed medicines to NHS patients when it is clinically appropriate to do so.  HL4182
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Lord Bassam of Brighton
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