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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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Public confidence in parliament and politics has fallen off a cliff. Everyone in Westminster – from the prime minister downwards – has bright ideas about what to do next. The three-week maelstrom over expenses provided the sense of crisis needed to make, for the first time in a long time, real change possible. The pervading… Read more »
Conservatives scrap council’s ‘Labour’ rose logo Newly victorious Conservatives at Lancashire county council have decided to scrap the council’s Labour-like rose logo in their first act since the local elections. The rose logo, which resembles Labour’s rose, was originally designed to replace the traditional Lancashire Tudor rose. Outgoing Labour leader Hazel Harding said the move… Read more »
