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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 English hospitals are more productive than those in the devolved regions, despite often having fewer staff per head of the population. Research by the Nuffield Trust over a ten-year-period found the NHS in England had fewer doctors, nurses and managers per capita, but still managed to accomplish more. The comparison was particularly… Read more »
William Hague’s trip to Moscow lays the groundwork for what both sides hope could be an upturn in distinctly frosty relations between Britain and Russia. By Alex Stevenson The shadow foreign secretary is meeting foreign minister Sergei Lavrov in what the Conservatives claim is a rare honour for opposition politicians. There’s no doubt the Russians… Read more »
