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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By politics.co.uk staff English hospitals are more productive than those in the devolved regions, despite often having fewer staff per head of the population. Research by the Nuffield Trust over a ten-year-period found the NHS in England had fewer doctors, nurses and managers per capita, but still managed to accomplish more. The comparison was particularly… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson The new chairman of parliament’s all-party group on Russia has pledged to re-engage “positively” with Moscow. Liberal Democrat MP Mike Hancock, recently elected chair of the Russia group, has welcomed William Hague’s unusual trip to Moscow to meet president Dmitry Medvedev’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov. Diplomatic engagement between London and Moscow has… Read more »
