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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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Companies who plague consumers with nuisance silent calls could face fines of up to £50,000, trade and industry secretary Alan Johnson announced today. It is part of the government’s efforts to halt the exorbitant increase in such phone calls, which occur when calls generated by computer are automatically ended if there are not enough operators… Read more »
The number of people asking for their complaints about the NHS to be independently reviewed has doubled in the past year, new figures show. About 8,000 complaints were referred to the Healthcare Commission in the year to August after local health services were unable to resolve them – compared to just 3,700 in 2003-04. Of… Read more »
