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Responding to a report by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman into complaints about cancer care, Dr Udvitha Nandasoma, Medical Defence Union (MDU) head of advisory services said: “The report by England’s NHS Ombudsman of outcomes for cancer patients is yet more evidence of the unsustainable pressure on NHS staff. Our members working in the NHS are… Read more »
BASC’s fighting fund, set up to fight the corner of members who have been victims of injustice, has successfully helped a member win costs against the police. The BASC member was awarded costs of £4,000 after a successful appeal against revocation of his certificate. BASC put Cheshire Constabulary on notice last year that costs would… Read more »
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The governments of the UK and Ireland plan to continue with plans to reinstate a power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland. In a joint statement released today, Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain and Irish foreign minister Dermot Ahern said they were “satisfied” with progress and could continue with legislation bringing to bring the St Andrews proposals… Read more »
The timing of Saddam Hussein’s sentencing in the run-up to the US mid-term elections was “deeply suspicious”, former foreign secretary Malcolm Rifkind has declared. The Conservative MP accused the Bush administration of using the timing of the verdict, which saw the former Iraqi leader sentenced to death by hanging, to boost the Republicans’ performance at… Read more »
