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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 basic state pension should gradually become more generous and less means-tested, paid for by an increase in the retirement age up to 69, Adair Turner said today. Announcing the final report of his long-awaited pension commission, Lord Turner also recommended the creation of a national pensions saving scheme (NPSS), to “use the power of… Read more »
British Gas engineers will take part in five 24-hour strikes in the coming weeks in a battle with the company over pension rights. It is estimated that up to 6,000 engineers will down tools on December 12th, 19th and 21st and January 6th and 9th. In addition, out-of-hours calls will not be handled from December… Read more »
