Responding to today’s announcement that the GMC is seeking views on a revised version of Good medical practice, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) said that it will be scrutinising the significant changes being proposed. The MDU, the UK’s leading medical defence organisation, explained that regulations must be compatible with the realities of doctors’ working lives and… Read more »
BASC, the UK’s largest shooting and conservation organisation, has expelled for life a member convicted of wildlife crime and firearms offences. Expulsion from BASC involves the loss of shooting insurance, on which the ability to shoot may depend, and other benefits of membership. The member from Nottinghamshire pleaded guilty to unlawfully trapping and beating to… Read more »
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The chancellor made a shock announcement in his budget today by saying he would be sticking to his 2009 forecasts. He said he would protect more than 500,000 jobs in the economy. “There can be no quick fixes, there can be no overnight solution,” he said. The economy would shrink by 3.5% in 2009, as… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Chancellor Alistair Darling announced in the Budget a new top rate of income tax of 50 per cent for those earning more than £150,000 from April 2010. This represents a significant rise from the proposed level of 45 per cent and brings it forward a year as this rate would not have… Read more »
