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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 politics.co.uk staff Parents will not be spared the requirement to work to continue to receive parents, Iain Duncan Smith has insisted. The work and pensions secretary told BBC1’s The Andrew Marr Show that even those with a family to look after would risk losing their benefits if they refused to work. Plans to toughen… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has pledged to seek “national reconciliation” a day after being freed by her country’s military junta. Senior figures in the UK government welcomed her release after she was detained for 15 of the last 21 years yesterday and backed her initial calls for discussion rather… Read more »
