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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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Two million people will be offered home testing kits for bowel cancer as part of a new £370 million drive to beat the disease. Bowel cancer is the second largest cause of cancer deaths in the UK and killed more than 16,000 people in 2003. About 30,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. Mortality rates… Read more »
DUP leader Ian Paisley has condemned the government’s normalisation programme for Northern Ireland as a “surrender to the IRA”. He said he was “appalled” at yesterday’s announcement that the two-year process of reverting to conventional policing would begin almost immediately, and has called for a meeting with the prime minister to air his grievances “face… Read more »