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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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A new drug that may offer hope to people with drug-resistant HIV has been launched in the UK today. The drug Fuzeon has been developed by Roche and is meant for patients who have stopped responding to existing treatments. The first new class of HIV drugs for seven years works in a different way to… Read more »
Bosses at National Air Traffic Services (Nats) have reaped substantial bonuses, despite losses of almost £110m witnessed during the past two years. In its annual report, Nats said it was working hard to end the financial haemorrhaging losses. This is its second loss since part-privatisation. Chief executive Richard Everitt received a bonus of £54,000, bringing… Read more »
