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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Interest rates have been kept on hold at 4.75 per cent. This is the tenth month in a row that the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) have frozen rates. The Bank of England raises or lowers the underlying rate of borrowing in the UK in an attempt to keep inflation (as measured by… Read more »
A new diplomat is set to take on probably the most dangerous UK diplomatic position; that of ambassador to Iraq. William Patey will succeed Edward Chaplin in Baghdad this month. The 51-year-old has extensive experience in the Middle East having been ambassador to Khartoum since 2002 and was head of the Foreign Office’s Middle East… Read more »
