| Proposed Bill | Purpose as per Legislative Programme | Expected Publication Date |
| Health (Private Patient Charges) Bill | To publish new arrangements for charging all private patients in public hospitals to meet budgetary requirements | In the Spring session |
| Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill |
To clarify and update a number of issues that have been identified over time with specific provisions of the Health Act 1970 and to provide for measures arising from Budget 2013 | In the Spring session |
| Medical Practitioners Act 2007 (Amendment) (Medical Indemnity) Bill | To make it mandatory for registration purposes for all medical practitioners engaged in clinical practice to have adequate medical indemnity insurance | Late 2013 |
| Health Information Bill | To provide a legislative framework for the better governance of health information and initiatives including data matching, population health resources and identifiers for use in the health service | Late 2013 |
| Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill | To amend certain legislation relating to statutory registration of some health professions | 2013 |
| Medical Practitioners Act 2007 (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill | To amend the Medical Practitioners Act 2007 in relation to a number of issues | No indication as to when publication expected |
| Human Tissue Bill | To meet the key recommendation of the Madden Report that no hospital post-mortem may be carried out and no tissue retained without consent. It will also address other matters relating to human tissue including consent arrangements for living donors in regard to donating tissue for transplantation and research purposes | No indication as to when publication expected |
| Licensing of Healthcare Facilities Bill | To provide for a mandatory system of licensing for public and private healthcare facilities | No indication as to when publication expected |
Your William Fry contacts: Fiona Barry & Margaret Muldowney
