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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US President George W Bush arrived in the capital last night to begin his controversial three-day state visit of the UK. Mr Bush and wife Laura landed at Heathrow Airport at around 19:30GMT yesterday evening. After being greeted by the Prince of Wales at a red carpet reception, they were quickly flown to Buckingham Palace… Read more »
Prime minister Tony Blair has ordered his sports minister to return home to help stave off a potential Commons defeat on Wednesday over the Government’s flagship Health and Social Care Bill. Sports minister Richard Caborn was ordered home from Australia before England’s rugby union World Cup final in Australia. In his place, culture secretary Tessa… Read more »
