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The UK Government must carry out long overdue reform of the teaching of Religious Education (RE) in England to meet the needs of modern society, says Humanists UK in response to another Ofsted review. In its deep-dive report into RE – Deep and meaningful? – Ofsted found that the current curriculum often lacks ‘sufficient substance to… Read more »
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 »
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The Government has launched a new initiative to encourage pharmaceutical companies to carry out more research on the effects of clinical drugs on children. Although children often respond to medicines differently to adults, many drugs are given to children despite them only being tested on adults. In recent years there have been particular concerns raised… Read more »
The chief executive of Labour’s advertising agency – TBWA London – will try to persuade party chiefs to fundamentally alter the traditional political broadcast. Andrew McGuinness, who will be in charge of the Labour Party’s advertising campaign at the next election, has said that the traditional four-minute broadcast needs to be reviewed and replaced with… Read more »
