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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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We can build our way out of the recession, according to a new group of leading housing organisations, unions and local authorities. The 2020 group say that investing billions to build 100,000 new homes over the next two years will “give a desperately needed boost to the economy, save thousands of construction jobs, avoid serious… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff We are yet to be a “truly united kingdom” and still face problems of racism despite a decade of action, the mother of Stephen Lawrence said today. Speaking at a conference to mark the 10th anniversary of the Macpherson report, which famously accused the Metropolitan police of being institutionally racist, she warned… Read more »
