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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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Britain’s complicated benefits system can put claimants off returning to work, a report claims. The study from three anti-poverty charities criticises “structural deficiencies” which it says are creating barriers for progress towards the government’s goals of full employment and eradicating child poverty by 2020. Community Links, the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) and the… Read more »
