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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 Red Cross played a controversial “political” gambit yesterday in chastising Israel for breaching international human rights with the continued construction of its contentious security fence in the West Bank. The Geneva-based humanitarian body – which normally stays politically neutral – released a statement saying the fence exceeded the rights of an occupying power and… Read more »
Tory leader Michael Howard has outlined his party’s policy on asylum and immigration today in Burnley. The northern town witnessed race riots in 2001 and a corresponding upsurge in support for the British National Party (BNP), which now holds several seats in the borough. Mr Howard said that three years ago Burnley suffered “serious disturbances… Read more »
