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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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Clare Short gives up the Labour whip and will remain as an independent MP
Short resigns Labour whip

Former cabinet minister Clare Short has resigned the Labour whip, and will sit as an independent MP from now on. The former international development secretary said the political system was “in trouble” and Labour’s huge majorities have produced an “arrogant, error-prone government”. The solution was to change the electoral system, she argued, but this would… Read more »

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Lord chief justice defends Human Rights Act as key counter-terrorism tool
Human rights ‘key weapon’ in tackling terrorism

Human rights laws have “unquestionably” limited the government’s attempts to tackle terrorism – but that is a good thing, the lord chief justice has argued. Lord Phillips said fighting terrorism was not just a question of reacting to the actions of suspected terrorists, but about tackling the ideology that caused them to act in this… Read more »