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 Ian Dunt The Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war began a new session today, with an angry outburst from the chairman over secrecy from the government. Sir John Chilcot said that the Cabinet secretary had refused to let him publish memos between Tony Blair and George Bush which revealed the then-prime minister’s thoughts in… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson Watered down proposals for introducing minimum pricing for alcohol will do little to help problem drinkers, experts have warned. The government’s proposals to prevent retailers from selling drinks at less than the value of the VAT and duty owed was described as an “important step” by one Whitehall source. While it will… Read more »
