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MDU warns Chancellor clinical negligence system ‘not fit for purpose’

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 »

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Northern Ireland RE curriculum is ‘indoctrination’ – Supreme Court

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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Bentley: What the successful RGF bid means for us
Bentley: What the successful RGF bid means for us

Carmaker Bentley has won one of the 119 successful bids for regional growth fund money announced today. Chairman and chief executive Wolfgang Dürheimer explains what it means for the company:

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No more ministers, MPs plead

The coalition government has appointed an excessive number of ministers because it wants to increase its control over the Commons, MPs have claimed.