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Former GP appointed to lead MDU professional services team

The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has appointed Dr Caroline Fryar as professional services director to lead the team guiding, supporting, and defending healthcare professionals with ethical and medico-legal issues. Dr Fryar has worked at the MDU for seventeen years in various roles, most recently as director of medical services. She was previously a GP. Caroline… Read more »

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Archer arrives home
Archer arrives home

Disgraced Tory peer Lord Jeffrey Archer has returned home from prison, having served two years and two days of his four-year sentence. He walked out of the gates of Hollesley Bay open prison near Woodbridge, Suffolk, early this morning, two years after being sentenced to four years imprisonment for perjury and perverting the course of… Read more »

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Details of Kelly inquiry announced
Details of Kelly inquiry announced

The inquiry into the tragic suicide of Iraq arms expert Dr David Kelly will be carried out “urgently”. The judge heading the investigation into the weeks leading up to Dr Kelly’s death said that the inquiry would be carried out mostly in public. Lord Hutton was appointed to head an independent inquiry after the Ministry… Read more »