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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 Ken Clarke’s department does not fully understand the costs of staff in its prisons, a report has found. The Commons’ public accounts committee found that despite two years’ work on the problem the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has still not integrated financial management into its policy and operational workings. It was the… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson Government peers in the House of Lords are beginning to contemplate the prospect of failure as Labour’s bid to scupper the electoral reform referendum continued. The bill which will implement the referendum planned for May 5th is currently stuck in the upper chamber as Labour peers seek to delay its progress. Today… Read more »
