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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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The NHS is struggling to deal with the massive growth of allergy sufferers, according to the Royal College of Physicians. It is estimated that one in three people in the UK suffers from such an ailment in one form or another, with one in 70 having a reaction to peanuts. Such a reaction can be… Read more »
The Prime Minister yesterday risked alienating pro-children groups when he declined calls to outlaw the smacking of children. Tony Blair, despite two Parliamentary committees hedging toward a ban on the grounds that the ‘reasonable chastisement’ defence was too readily relied upon by abusers in court, said the decision to smack or not was best left… Read more »
