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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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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 »
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 »
