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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 government’s compensation scheme for coal miners suffering poor health cost more than £1 in administration for every £2 paid out, it has emerged. MPs reveal the findings in the public accounts committee’s report on the coal health compensation scheme, begun by the then-Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in 1998. Since courts ruled the… Read more »
