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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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Health secretary Alan Johnson has revealed the government’s plans for the next ten years of the NHS. Quality, patient choice and innovation are at the heart of the government’s vision for its next decade, which comes following a nine-month review of the health service. The review, led by health minister and surgeon Lord Ara Darzi,… Read more »
The European Union cannot afford to lose Turkey’s interest in struggling accession talks, MPs have warned. A report by the Commons’ business and enterprise committee expresses concern that the process is in danger of stalling. Disputes over Cyprus, the current constitutional crisis about the status of the ruling AK party and the slow pace of… Read more »
