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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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Tests in Welsh schools at 11 and 14 years should be abolished, a new report commissioned by the Welsh National Assembly has recommended. The report, written by Professor Richard Daugherty of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, proposes replacing the Key Stage 2 and 3 tests in schools with a single “skills test” at age 10…. Read more »
Viscount Trenchard has been elected by Conservative hereditary peers to return to the House of Lords. Under the House of Lords Act 1999, which removed most of the hereditary peers from the Lords, provisions were made for 92 hereditary peers to remain in the “interim” House until a permanent solution could be agreed. In the… Read more »
