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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 campaign to get Britain to vote no in a referendum on the European Constitution has launched today. In preparation for the referendum, expected in 2006, the Vote No campaign is joining forces with the Centre for a Social Europe to launch campaign literature, a new website and new polling on the EU Constitution debate…. Read more »
The chief inspector of prisons, Anne Owers, has described the care afforded to children at immigration detention centres as “seriously deficient”. She found that the Tinsley House facility near Gatwick had no dedicated child protection officer and failed to carry out the correct security checks on staff. In a separate report, she described the childcare… Read more »
