The medical profession is launching a lobbying campaign today to write a commitment to “do no harm” into the government’s Brexit legislation.
Peers are backing an attempt to force ministers to consider the implications for Britons’ public health as they negotiate the country’s exit from the EU.
An amendment to the EU withdrawal bill, which copies most European law on to the British statute book ready for Brexit day next March, is being backed by more than 15 medical groups, including the Royal College of GPs, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, the Royal Society of Public Health and the Faculty of Public Health. Health insiders said that it was the profession’s most concerted lobbying on legislation since the ban on smoking in enclosed public