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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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Labour has failed to reduce its deficit against the Conservatives despite the ongoing global financial crisis, the latest Guardian/ICM poll suggests. The voting intentions survey sees both the Tories and Labour unchanged on last month’s figures, which put David Cameron’s party 12 points ahead of Gordon Brown’s on 42 per cent to 30 per cent…. Read more »
New defence secretary John Hutton has visited British forces in Iraq for the first time since taking on his new job earlier this month. Having met with Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad the day before Mr Hutton travelled to the country’s second city, Basra, where British troops have been stationed since coalition forces… Read more »
