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Responding to a report by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman into complaints about cancer care, Dr Udvitha Nandasoma, Medical Defence Union (MDU) head of advisory services said: “The report by England’s NHS Ombudsman of outcomes for cancer patients is yet more evidence of the unsustainable pressure on NHS staff. Our members working in the NHS are… Read more »
BASC’s fighting fund, set up to fight the corner of members who have been victims of injustice, has successfully helped a member win costs against the police. The BASC member was awarded costs of £4,000 after a successful appeal against revocation of his certificate. BASC put Cheshire Constabulary on notice last year that costs would… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff Former foreign secretary Margaret Beckett is to join to the contest to become the next Speaker. Ms Beckett was housing minister under Gordon Brown, but she stepped down last week as part of the slew of resignations which threatened to cripple the prime minister’s authority. She joins Labour backbencher Parmjit… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson Gordon Brown has accused the Tories of planning ten per cent spending cuts for Britain’s public services. The claim, made in the prime minister’s first PMQs after seeing off rebel backbenchers on Monday evening, was based on an apparent admission by shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley. He was responding to a report… Read more »
