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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 European Commission has approved a controversial £4 billion Government backed rescue plan for British Energy. British Energy, which operates eight nuclear power stations in the UK and supplies electricity to the UK wholesale market and some large businesses, got into deep financial trouble in 2002. The Government then stepped in with an emergency £650… Read more »
New research from Leeds University indicates that early health education on its own is not enough to prevent teenagers taking up smoking. The research finds that levels of teenage smoking are still “worryingly high” despite intensive early-years of education efforts Health experts believe that smoking indirectly kills over 100,000 people a year in the UK… Read more »
