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The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has appointed Dr Caroline Fryar as professional services director to lead the team guiding, supporting, and defending healthcare professionals with ethical and medico-legal issues. Dr Fryar has worked at the MDU for seventeen years in various roles, most recently as director of medical services. She was previously a GP. Caroline… Read more »
Royal Mail has shelved plans to impose a blanket ban on the carriage of knives which would have unfairly penalised the shooting community and hundreds of small businesses across the country. The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) wrote to Royal Mail’s chief executive pointing out that the ban would severely impact retailers across the… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff Jacqui Smith had “never run a major organisation” before accepting the job of home secretary in 2007. Speaking in an interview with Total Politics magazine, Ms Smith said she wished she had been better trained for the role. “I hope I did a good job but if I did it was more… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson Britain’s small stature among the world’s five nuclear nations does not mean it cannot adopt a leadership role, it has been suggested. Mark Fitzpatrick, senior fellow for non-proliferation at the International Institute of Strategic Studies, told politics.co.uk the “wisdom and energy” of Whitehall civil servants mattered more than the size of the… Read more »
