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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 plans to meet European Union targets on renewable energy will be unveiled next week, according to reports. Under present targets, the government has promised to generate 15 per cent of the nation’s energy from renewable resources by 2020. According to the Guardian newspaper, the plan dubbed the ‘Green Industrial Revolution’ envisages an increased… Read more »
A recent House of Lords ruling has been criticised by Metropolican police assistant commissioner John Yates who claims it could let dangerous criminals free. Writing in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Mr Yates said the decision by the law Lords to quash a double murder conviction in the 2004 Iain Davis case would harm the police’s… Read more »
