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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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The Liberal Democrats today positioned themselves as the party to take radical action on climate change by promising to commit the UK to a carbon neutral future in elected. Delegates at the Lib Dem conference in Brighton overwhelmingly supported the party’s policy paper on climate change, including controversial commitments for no new nuclear power stations… Read more »
Menzies Campbell last night accused the government of “trampling on human rights” by eroding civil liberties and failing to defend the Human Rights Act. The Liberal Democrat leader called for an independent review of British freedoms to assess how much liberty has been lost under Labour. Speaking at a civil liberties rally at the Liberal… Read more »
