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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 Government is urging more 17 and 18 year olds to sign up to its education maintenance award (EMA) scheme. Introduced national wide in September as an attempt to curb the post-16 drop out rate, figures released this morning from the Department of Education and Skills indicate that more than a quarter of a million… Read more »
The BMA has this morning warned that closures of science departments are placing the future of UK medicine in jeopardy. Exeter University is currently embroiled in a high profile dispute over the closure of their chemistry department, with the parents of some students affected threatening to sue. But it is not the only chemistry department… Read more »