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The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has successfully supported a GP member with a series of investigations that followed a patient death. The GP was eventually exonerated, but not before responding to a complaint, claim, NHS England investigation and GMC investigation over a five-year period. The MDU is encouraging healthcare professionals to get support from colleagues… Read more »
Humanists UK is celebrating the ten year anniversary of the first same-sex marriages in England and Wales. Whereas the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act received Royal Assent on 17 July 2013, it took some time to implement this change, so the Act only came into force the following year. The first same-sex marriages took place just after midnight… Read more »
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Rishi Sunak has travelled to Northern Ireland to mark the restoration of power-sharing at Stormont. The prime minister hailed a “special opportunity” at the beginning of his visit after Stormont returned on Saturday to establish a new power-sharing executive. Having arrived in Belfast on Sunday, the prime minister is scheduled to meet new first minister… Read more »
RShadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has been warned she is “boxing herself in” over Labour’s tax pledges. Ed Balls, the former shadow chancellor, said Reeves was “absolutely removing room for manoeuvre” and that could prove problematic if the Labour Party’s “fiscal inheritance turns out to be tougher” than expected. Balls’ comments, made on his Political Currency… Read more »