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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 politics.co.uk staff The bullying charity whose intervention in the Gordon Brown bullying allegations this week caused consternation and anger across the political spectrum is being investigated by the Charity Commission. The National Bullying Helpline’s patrons all resigned this week after chief executive Christine Pratt said it had received calls from Downing Street staff. The… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Fears of a double dip recession appear to have been temporarily put to bed as revised figures showed 0.3% growth in the UK economy. The final three months of 2009 saw the economy grow by more than previously thought, following six consecutive quarters of contraction. The original 0.1% assessment has now been… Read more »
