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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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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has welcomed the Syrian confirmation that its troops will begin to fall-back from part of Lebanon – but said that this should only be the start. The Lebanese defence minister Abdel Rahim Mrad said that Syria is to begin to pull its troops out of Lebanon, initially moving them to the… Read more »
Funding for the UK’s biotech industry, which includes stem cell research and DNA based medicines, will rise to over £1 billion over the next three years. The money has been allocated from the already announced £10 billion science budget. In addition to the £1 billion for the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, £1.5 billion… Read more »