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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 should offer free in vitro fertilisation, the National Institute of Clinical Excellence has recommended. In the second draft of clinical guideline, the government health watchdog claims infertile couples should be offered three batches of treatment using fresh embryos on the NHS. Backers hope the expansion of the service will bring to an end… Read more »
The chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, John Scarlett, will today give evidence to Lord Hutton’s judicial inquiry into the apparent suicide of Dr David Kelly, the Iraqi weapons inspector and “source” in the BBC story that No 10 “sexed up” intelligence reports on Iraq to bolster the case for war against Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship…. Read more »
