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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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British gas has started to send out its first paperless bills to around 100,000 customers. Customers who buy both gas and electricity from the company and have opted to be billed quarterly via email rather than through the post will save £10 a year by switching to the new payment method. However, demands for late… Read more »
Rescue workers have found eleven of the trapped Russian miners alive after they had been underground for six days. Thirteen miners were still trapped in the Zapadnaya coalmine in Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov Province in Southern Russia. Last Thursday the mine was flooded when a subterranean lake leaked into a shaft blocking the miners’ return to the… Read more »
