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Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) has issued an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer urging her to take decisive action to tackle the soaring legal costs of clinical negligence claims. In the last year alone, the NHS spent more than £800 million on legal fees relating to clinical negligence… Read more »
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a non-religious father and his child that the exclusively Christian teaching of Religious Education (RE) and collective worship in Northern Ireland are ‘indoctrination’. Alongside mandatory Christian collective worship and a ‘stigmatising’ right of withdrawal, this is therefore discriminatory under human rights law. This ruling will have wide-ranging… Read more »
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The chief executive of Royal Mail has defended the company’s performance after the latest figures show that it has failed to meet its delivery targets. Over the last five months First Class next day delivery performance ran at about 88.3 per cent, significantly lower that the target of 92.5 per cent of all First Class… Read more »
With the August “silly season” in full swing and most of the UK’s political operatives away on holiday, this week has been incredibly quiet on the appointments front. All the parliaments remain in recess, and there have been no changes to the Government or opposition front benches. Coincidentally, all the key appointments for this week… Read more »
