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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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Tony Blair has strongly defended his pursuit of centrist policies over the past ten years, and warned Labour that moving back to the left would only result in electoral defeat. The prime minister rejected as “bulldust” the idea that people wanted more traditional Labour policies but that he had been refusing it, arguing: “The leaders… Read more »
A new prison is to open in Merseyside, the Home Office has announced, providing 350 new places for a system that is creaking at the seams. HMP Kennet will open in the spring and will focus on providing its category C male inmates with skills and qualifications, home secretary John Reid said. The prison population… Read more »
