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Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Lord Ashley of Stoke (Labour), on Monday, 17 February 1992, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 91 members in total.

CENTRALLY FUNDED NO-FAULT MEDICAL ACCIDENT PAYMENT SCHEME

That this House deplores the delays in providing for both haemophiliac and non-haemophiliac patients infected with HIV through National Health Service treatment; believes that no medical accident victim should be subject to uncertainty and legal pressures which compound their suffering; nor should their financial welfare depend on the death-bed repentance of a government before a general election; and calls for the establishment of a centrally funded no-fault medical accident payment scheme.

Amendments

The Early day motion has received an amendment.

CENTRALLY FUNDED NO-FAULT MEDICAL ACCIDENT PAYMENT SCHEME (690A1)
The Early day motion has received an amendment sponsored by Michael McNair-Wilson (primary, Conservative) and tabled on Thursday, 20 February 1992. It has been signed by 1 members in total.
leave out from 'House' to end and add 'warmly congratulates the Secretary of State for Health on providing an ex gratia compensation package for those NHS patients who received blood transfusions infected with the HIV virus, thus relieving them and their families of financial uncertainty; recognises that the HIV contamination of Factor VIII blood products as used by haemophiliacs and of blood used for transfusion was a unique tragedy in the history of the Health Service, and that the cost of compensation must be taken into account before any general no-fault claims are made for an alternative compensation scheme; and believes that new testing procedures should totally eliminate any recurrence of the tragedy.'.

Secondary information

Type
Early day motion
Reference
690 
690A1 
Session
1991-92
Subjects
HIV/AIDS Haemophilia NHS Ex gratia payments
Link
View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk