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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 Liberal Democrats have set out their plans for the NHS today, with calls for nurses to be given greater power within the health service. Speaking at the Royal College of Nursing’s (RCN) conference in Bournemouth this afternoon, Mr Clegg downplayed the ‘I love NHS’ Twitter campaign which exploded last summer. “I… Read more »
By Ian Dunt Nick Clegg has become as arrogant as David Cameron, Peter Mandelson has claimed. Speaking at a press conference in London, the business secretary labelled the Liberal Democrat leader as “arrogant”. Mr Clegg has “started to exude the same sort of entitlement that we had previously associated with David Cameron and George Osborne,”… Read more »
