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Tax rise payments from over 8 million people needed to fund NHS litigation An influential parliamentary committee has been warned by the Medical Defence Union (MDU) that the Health and Social Care Levy of 1.25% could be swallowed up by the amounts being paid out each year in NHS clinical negligence claims. In evidence to… Read more »
Plans to allow doctors to help terminally ill adults end their lives moved closer to becoming law today, after a new Assisted Dying Bill passed its second reading in the House of Lords. Humanists UK, which campaigns to legalise assisted dying for both the terminally ill and incurably suffering, has praised today’s debate for its… Read more »
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Gordon Brown hopes the recent turmoil in global markets will convince world leaders of the need to reform. Speaking as he arrived in Davos for the World Economic Forum, the prime minister said financial turbulence should be an opportunity to reform and strengthen the world economy. But he warned against being overly optimistic, predicting the… Read more »
Gordon Brown has denied “dithering” over Peter Hain, who resigned from the government yesterday after the Metropolitan police was asked to investigate his failure to report £103,000 in donations. Mr Hain telephoned the prime minister to resign as work and pensions secretary and Welsh secretary immediately after the Electoral Commission said it would refer the… Read more »
