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Tax rise payments from over 8 million people needed to fund NHS litigation An influential parliamentary committee has been warned by the Medical Defence Union (MDU) that the Health and Social Care Levy of 1.25% could be swallowed up by the amounts being paid out each year in NHS clinical negligence claims. In evidence to… Read more »
Plans to allow doctors to help terminally ill adults end their lives moved closer to becoming law today, after a new Assisted Dying Bill passed its second reading in the House of Lords. Humanists UK, which campaigns to legalise assisted dying for both the terminally ill and incurably suffering, has praised today’s debate for its… Read more »
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Fears that Bulgarians and Romanians would flood into the UK when work restrictions were lifted at the start of the year prove unfounded, after airlines and coach companies find no increase in traffic from the two countries.
Thousands of people sign a petition against Michael Gove’s decision to punish children with exercise, after leading athletes, head teachers and even Conservative supporters spoke out against the plans.
