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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 Ian Dunt David Cameron has hit back at criticism of the coalition government from his backbenchers with an unashamedly pro-business speech. In his first speech as prime minister, Mr Cameron made a concerted effort to calm the nerves of anxious backbenchers and party members who are increasingly concerned about the more left-wing policies of… Read more »
By Ian Dunt An audit of the previous government’s attempts to reduce the number of people on incapacity benefits has shown the extent of the challenge facing Iain Duncan Smith. Mr Duncan Smith, who dominated the news agenda yesterday with his opening salvo of his welfare-to-work programme, is expected to introduce wide-ranging changes to the… Read more »
