- Target:
- HM Government (UK)
- Region:
- United Kingdom
- Website:
- www.proventus.org.uk
The Hilary Price Memorial Petition is aimed at catalysing a change in the law to enable seriously ill patients, who suffer from an otherwise untreatable condition, to receive medication which has yet to receive formal approval. Any such medication would be taken entirely at the patient’s own risk on an informed consent basis.
Hilary Price was a Multiple Sclerosis sufferer who desperately wanted to get better but gradually lost her fight in the long battle against MS, primarily because the right medication was not available in time to alleviate her problems. Eventually she suffered a massive stroke as a result of breathing complications caused by the MS and died a few days later. Our aim is to ensure that a patient’s health is no longer compromised in this fashion.
Proventus asks the government to implement a change in our laws to give the right to any sufferer when in a position of supreme disadvantage from their disorder/disease for that person to be able to make final full decisions regarding all available treatments and to accept total liability when so doing, instead of others making those decisions for them.
We, the undersigned, call upon HM Government to implement a change in our laws to give the right to any sufferer when in a position of supreme disadvantage from their disorder/disease for that person to be able to make final full decisions regarding all available treatments and to accept total liability when so doing, instead of others making those decisions for them. That the liability of the medical practitioner be limited to ensuring that the patient is sufficiently well informed to be able to make a rational decision concerning their choice of treatment.
We ask that the government use its best endeavours to ensure that similar legislation is adopted throughout the European Union.
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The The Hilary Price Memorial Petition petition to HM Government (UK) was written by David Price and is in the category Health at GoPetition.