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Give trainees more support to avoid burnout says MDU

A survey of 67,000 doctors in training which shows worrying levels of burnout and exhaustion among the medical profession should concern us all, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) said today. The GMC’s annual National Training Survey found that the risk of burnout among medical trainees is now at its worst since it was first tracked in 2018…. Read more »

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Political red tape a threat to shooting in Wales

BASC has labelled the launch of a call for evidence on gamebird releasing in Wales as an “attempt to restrict shooting through red tape” and vowed to fight “restriction proposals” arising from it. The call for evidence focuses on pheasant and red-legged partridge, and has been launched by Natural Resources Wales (NRW) to “inform the… Read more »

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Peter Mandelson described the scrapping of the 10p tax rate as a "very big mistake"
Mandelson attacks “big mistake” 10p tax change

European Union trade commissioner Peter Mandelson has described the government’s decision to scrap the 10p tax rate as a “very big mistake”. Mr Mandelson also warned prime minister Gordon Brown against abandoning one of New Labour’s key principles, helping the poor, during an interview with BBC News. “If you lose one tenet then the whole… Read more »

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John Denham to press change on Labour

Cabinet minister John Denham will outline his vision of Labour’s way forward in southern England later today. The innovation, universities and skills secretary’s speech to the Fabian Society this evening comes in the wake of devastating local election results which saw Labour lose control of nine councils across England and Wales. They included Reading, which… Read more »