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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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The tower containing Big Ben could be renamed Elizabeth Tower in honour of the Queen, if a motion before parliament is passed.
This is, it’s now clear, George Osborne’s least politically astute Budget. It will be remembered as the year in which the 50p rate forcing the top one per cent to pay their fair share was replaced by the ‘granny tax’, stripping working pensioners of income tax relief. That strikes the majority of the public as fundamentally unfair.
