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MDU warns Chancellor clinical negligence system ‘not fit for purpose’

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 »

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Northern Ireland RE curriculum is ‘indoctrination’ – Supreme Court

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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Week-in-Review: Starmer has every reason to fear a deputy leadership election

“Summer is definitely over”, exhaled a self-assured sounding Keir Starmer on Monday. The prime minister had just kicked off the new parliamentary term with a relatively wholesale rejig of his Downing Street operation.  A new “chief secretary to the prime minister” post was created; Darren Jones, rated in Downing Street, was poached from the Treasury… Read more »