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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 MPs will receive a pay increase of £1,000, taking their basic salary up to £65,737 a year. The decision was made by the Senior Salaries Review Body without any input from MPs, and will go through automatically. It calculated the amount by looking at changes to pay in other areas of the… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson Gordon Brown has insisted he agreed to every request made by defence chiefs during the Iraq war, in a politically charged session at the Chilcot inquiry. The prime minister had been accused by a previous witness that as chancellor he “guillotined” defence spending for Iraq.. Within the opening half-hour of evidence, however,… Read more »