Off-patent Drugs Bill

Debate between Kit Malthouse and Joanna Cherry

Friday 6th November 2015 Commons Chamber

[Kit Malthouse]

I am slightly confused. Doctors are absolutely responsible for what they prescribe, but only if they do so negligently. The hon. Lady would not expose herself to litigation if she had, for instance, used the dye on a patient who then suffered from anaphylactic shock if that had been an appropriate and responsible thing to do given the patient’s condition at the time.

[Joanna Cherry (Edinburgh South West) (SNP)]

There is a risk.