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 politics.co.uk staff Alex Salmond has sought to shift attention back to the British government in a letter to US senators probing the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi. The Scottish first minister’s government has attracted huge criticism in the US over allegations that energy firm BP intervened to help secure an oil deal with… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff David Cameron is set to push ahead with plans for a national citizens’ service, where teenagers would be given work in the community. The prime minister is expected to release new details of the plans, saying they would give young people’s life “shape”. “A kind of non-military national service, it is going… Read more »
