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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Doctors will be able to withdraw artificial nutrition and hydration from terminally ill patients if they believe treatment causes more suffering than benefit, following a successful high court ruling. The case was brought by the General Medical Council (GMC) after a judge backed the claim of Leslie Burke, who argued doctors should continue keeping patients… Read more »
The chief inspector of prisons has called for “immediate and decisive” action at a private prison in Warwickshire where inmates were found to be out of control. Anne Owers said the situation at Rye Hill prison near Rugby had reached a point that staff, many of whom were “inexperienced and poorly supported”, were being bullied… Read more »
