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A review of nurse practitioner cases notified to leading medical defence organisation, the Medical Defence Union (MDU), has found nurses now face a similar range of medico-legal investigations into incidents as doctors. Between 2017 and 2021, the MDU helped 400 nurse members with medico-legal processes including complaints, claims, disciplinary procedures and NMC investigations. The MDU… Read more »
A survey of 67,000 doctors in training which shows worrying levels of burnout and exhaustion among the medical profession should concern us all, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) said today. The GMC’s annual National Training Survey found that the risk of burnout among medical trainees is now at its worst since it was first tracked in 2018…. Read more »
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By Ian Dunt The Conservatives have pledged to tackle the rise of the surveillance state by scrapping ID cards and CentrePoint. In a major announcement designed to assure civil libertarians of the party’s commitment to the issue, the party policy paper, set to be presented by shadow justice secretary Dominic Grieves today, will confirm that… Read more »
The unemployment rate has hit 7.9 per cent, figures have shown. By politics.co.uk staff The Office for National Statistics showed a 2.3 per cent increase on the quarterly figures over the past year. The rate has not been higher since the three months to November 1996. The number of people claiming jobseeker’s allowance rose to… Read more »