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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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By Liz Stephens The government’s national flu pandemic service will be launched today. The service – which will cover only England – will include a hotline and internet advice to help relieve the pressure on frontline NHS staff. It aims to speed up access to drugs for thousands of infected people. However, there were doubts… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson Norwich North’s former Labour MP Ian Gibson would be welcome in the ranks of the local Green party, its candidate Rupert Read has said. Mr Read made the offer in an interview to politics.co.uk on the eve of today’s by-election, triggered by Dr Gibson’s resignation. He quit parliament after falling victim to… Read more »
