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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 The NHS will need to rapidly improve its management if it is to make the £20 billion annual efficiency savings demanded by government. A report by the National Audit Office (NAO) found that even in the boom times over the past ten years, productivity in the NHS as a whole fell by… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Homeopathic remedies to your pets ailments are set to be heavily targeted under government plans. The Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) is looking to scrutinise products and treatments not cleared by scientific testing which might put pets ‘at risk’. John Fitzgerald, VMO’s director of operations, said: “Some of these products are claiming to… Read more »
