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Former GP appointed to lead MDU professional services team

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 »

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Top tax rate ‘means to end’

A 50 pence top rate of tax is a “means to an end” rather than a definite policy in its own right, Charles Kennedy said today. The Liberal Democrat leader indicated that the policy to collect 50 per cent income tax on people earning more than £100,000 could be reviewed. In an interview with The… Read more »

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Party must adopt ‘overall vision’

The Liberal Democrats must no longer be defined by their disparate policies but instead by the vision they have for government, MPs warned today. Chair of the parliamentary party Matthew Taylor welcomed the Lib Dems’ electoral success earlier this year but admitted it was not the result he had hoped for. But what he described… Read more »