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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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Cocaine and heroine addicts are being offered medication as a reward for keeping off drugs. A survey by the National Treatment Agency (NTA) reveals in nearly 200 rehabilitation clinics, good behaviour is rewarded with extra methadone or antidepressants, while the BBC has uncovered those providing clean urine samples are also being rewarded. The BBC found… Read more »
Prime minister Gordon Brown will be in Lisbon today to “thrash out a deal” on the controversial EU reform treaty. It is hoped the meeting will see EU leaders agree on the final text for the amending treaty, which was originally agreed upon at a summit in Brussels in June 2007. A spokesperson for the… Read more »
