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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 Consumer morale in July fell as low as May 2009, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC). The group reported a 0.5% rise in retail sales in July, compared to 1.2% in June. Building society Nationwide came to similar conclusions, with consumer confidence falling from 63 in June to 56 in July,… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Four American senators have added to pressure on the Scottish government to release more details of the medical records which prompted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi’s release last year. Robert Menendez, Kirsten Gillibrand, Frank Lautenberg and Charles Schumer requested the release of Megrahi’s full medical records after the Scottish Labour party called for… Read more »
