The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has appointed Dr Caroline Fryar as professional services director to lead the team guiding, supporting, and defending healthcare professionals with ethical and medico-legal issues. Dr Fryar has worked at the MDU for seventeen years in various roles, most recently as director of medical services. She was previously a GP. Caroline… Read more »
Royal Mail has shelved plans to impose a blanket ban on the carriage of knives which would have unfairly penalised the shooting community and hundreds of small businesses across the country. The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) wrote to Royal Mail’s chief executive pointing out that the ban would severely impact retailers across the… Read more »
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by Peter Wozniak A move to ease restrictions on private sector involvement in universities would damage academic standards, a higher education union has warned. In a letter to David Willets, the universities minister, the Universities and Colleges Union (UCU) cited examples of for-profit involvement in American universities as a warning for the UK, should it… Read more »
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