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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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By Liz Stephens Leaking information should only be a criminal matter where there is a breach of the Official Secrets Act or additional evidence of serious criminal misconduct, MPs said today. The Commons public administration select committee called on government departments to ensure that potential whistleblowers were able to raise concerns. It recommended the establishment… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson Britain has fallen into a “vicious circle of laziness” despite a £75 million government campaign to check rising obesity levels, according to a report out today. Research from independent healthcare charity the Nuffield Trust revealed what it claims are staggering levels of laziness among modern Brits. Ministers have repeatedly urged people to… Read more »
