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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 A Labour government will prevent foreign takeovers of British companies if they are not in the national interest, it is believed. The party’s election manifesto will contain a pledge to stop companies that are designated ‘strategic’ or part of the national interest being bought by foreign firms, unless two-thirds of shareholders agree…. Read more »
By Alex Stevenson Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Vince Cable has waded into the national insurance row by calling the interventions of business leaders “utterly nauseating”. Dr Cable went on the offensive after the first week of the general election campaign was dominated by Tory proposals to scrap the government’s planned one per cent hike in… Read more »
