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 Pension schemes covering four million people may have seen a huge rise in the shortfall between assets and liabilities, according to a study. Independent consultant John Ralfe claimed that the deficit in the local government pension scheme had sky-rocketed to £100 billion, up from £42 billion in 2007. Mr Ralfe’s research suggests… Read more »
HMS Lib Dem is springing leaks and listing badly, but commentators should know better than to predict the annihilation of a political party five years out from a general election. By Peter Wozniak It seems the fashion in Westminster right now when concerning the Liberal Democrats to herald – Nostradamus-style – the inevitable demise of… Read more »
