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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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Gordon Brown has pledged to abide with his “golden” fiscal rule, despite fears of a record shortfall in funding in September. The Treasury’s budget deficit grew to £10.8 billion in September from £3.3 billion year-on-year. In the last fiscal year, the deficit as a whole expanded to £37 billion, three per cent of gross domestic… Read more »
The Labour MP for Newport East, Alan Howarth, has said he will not be putting his name forward for re-election at the next general election. The MP created history in 1995 when he crossed the floor of the House of Commons to the Labour side, after disagreeing with the then Conservative government’s “indifferent” policy toward… Read more »
