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The UK Government must carry out long overdue reform of the teaching of Religious Education (RE) in England to meet the needs of modern society, says Humanists UK in response to another Ofsted review. In its deep-dive report into RE – Deep and meaningful? – Ofsted found that the current curriculum often lacks ‘sufficient substance to… Read more »
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 »
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Defence secretary Des Browne must resign if he fails to give a “full account” of his decision to allow the 15 Royal Navy personnel released by Iran to sell their stories, Conservative leader David Cameron has said. Speaking on BBC1’s Sunday AM programme Mr Cameron added that Mr Browne would also need to illustrate that… Read more »
The debt crisis facing the NHS is “real and entrenched” and has resulted in the loss of thousands of jobs, Britain’s leading nursing union has warned. Over 22,000 NHS posts have been lost in the past 18 months, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has claimed, in a report published as its annual conference gets… Read more »