The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has successfully supported a GP member with a series of investigations that followed a patient death. The GP was eventually exonerated, but not before responding to a complaint, claim, NHS England investigation and GMC investigation over a five-year period. The MDU is encouraging healthcare professionals to get support from colleagues… Read more »
Humanists UK is celebrating the ten year anniversary of the first same-sex marriages in England and Wales. Whereas the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act received Royal Assent on 17 July 2013, it took some time to implement this change, so the Act only came into force the following year. The first same-sex marriages took place just after midnight… Read more »
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By Ian Dunt Nick Clegg has taken a stand against Britain’s much-criticised libel laws. The Lib Dem leader used a speech at the 350th birthday celebration of the Royal Society this lunchtime to say the law was having a “stifling effect” on scientific debate. “The freedom to evaluate critically the work of others is the… Read more »
Here’s the big question vexing Labour over the weekend: how divorced are its inhabitants of the Westminster village from the rest of the country? By Alex Stevenson At the beginning of the week I spoke to Labour campaigners from up and down Britain. I might have expected to find them shuddering, not from the cold,… Read more »
