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The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has successfully supported a GP member with a series of investigations that followed a patient death. The GP was eventually exonerated, but not before responding to a complaint, claim, NHS England investigation and GMC investigation over a five-year period. The MDU is encouraging healthcare professionals to get support from colleagues… Read more »
Humanists UK is celebrating the ten year anniversary of the first same-sex marriages in England and Wales. Whereas the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act received Royal Assent on 17 July 2013, it took some time to implement this change, so the Act only came into force the following year. The first same-sex marriages took place just after midnight… Read more »
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Residents and tourists crossing the Skye Bridge will from today no longer have to pay tolls. The announcement today by the Scottish Executive was greeted with delight from residents and tourist bodies who have long been campaigning to scrap the tolls. The toll to cross the privately built bridge was first imposed in 1995, and… Read more »
The Attorney General has today ordered the review of 28 cases where parents and carers were convicted of killing an infant under the age of two. Lord Goldsmith identified 25 cases out of 297 in the last decade where there was “sufficient cause for concern to warrant further consideration”. Another three will be reviewed after… Read more »
