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The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has appointed Dr Caroline Fryar as professional services director to lead the team guiding, supporting, and defending healthcare professionals with ethical and medico-legal issues. Dr Fryar has worked at the MDU for seventeen years in various roles, most recently as director of medical services. She was previously a GP. Caroline… Read more »
Royal Mail has shelved plans to impose a blanket ban on the carriage of knives which would have unfairly penalised the shooting community and hundreds of small businesses across the country. The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) wrote to Royal Mail’s chief executive pointing out that the ban would severely impact retailers across the… Read more »
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Employment fell by 16,000 over the three months to June but is still slightly higher than this time last year, new figures from the Office for National Statistics show. The employment rate for people of working age was 74.7 per cent for the second quarter, down from 74.9 per cent for the previous quarter but… Read more »
Improvement to public services is the key to helping the most disadvantaged in the UK, a government report has said. The report, compiled by the government’s Social Exclusion Unit (SEU), is the result of a series of informal questionnaires and formal consultations carried out last winter. Local government and social exclusion minister Phil Woolas said… Read more »
