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Following the publication today of a public accounts committee report into NHS financial sustainability, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) said the NHS should enact long promised reforms aimed at controlling the costs of clinical negligence cases. The MDU was one of the few healthcare organisations to submit written evidence to the committee. Dr Mike Devlin, MDU head of… Read more »
The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has partnered with Members of Parliament to secure a debate in the House of Commons focusing on the health and wellbeing of doctors. Sponsored by Dr Peter Prinsley, MP for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket, the Welfare of Doctors debate called for the government and NHS leaders to take more steps to improve… Read more »
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Labour could be in power for 20 years if voters get the election “wrong”, a Conservative minister has warned.
Grant Shapps has become the first minister to explicitly concede that a Conservative general election victory is “unlikely”. The defence secretary, who recently warned that a Labour is on track for a “super majority” on the 4th July, nonetheless contended that an election victory for his party was “possible”. Asked if the Conservatives can still… Read more »
