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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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Iran’s hardline Governing Council has defended the barring of prospective liberal candidates in next month’s parliamentary elections. Iranian hardline Islamic leaders are standing by the decision to turn down 3,000 of the 8,200 candidates for the February 20th elections, despite the intervention of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The Council said many of the… Read more »
Downing Street will breathe a sigh of relief on hearing the news that several key backbench Labour rebels have said they will drop their vocal hostility to university top-up fees, after the government made a series of concessions. Former Culture Secretary Chris Smith yesterday said he would back the Higher Education Bill, which allows universities… Read more »
