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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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British troops have used white phosphorous but only as a “smokescreen” and never against civilians, John Reid has admitted. The defence secretary was speaking after US forces admitted to using the substance, which burns down to the bone on contact with the skin, in the Iraqi city of Fallujah. Although both the British and American… Read more »
Tony Blair has listed his wife’s income from speaking engagements and her book promotion tour on the register of MPs’ interests. The prime minister said it was right to include details of Cherie’s speeches in the US, Australia and New Zealand as they “included some discussion of my wife’s life in No 10 Downing Street”…. Read more »
