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The Medical Defence Union (MDU) responded to the GMC workforce report 2024 which found there needs to be more education and training opportunities for locally employed doctors, many of whom qualified from outside the UK. Dr Udvitha Nandasoma, MDU head of advisory services, said: “The GMC’s latest report highlights that the medical workforce is evolving into one… Read more »
Tomorrow, MPs will vote for the first time on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill – the first vote on assisted dying in the Commons in nearly a decade. Introduced by Kim Leadbeater MBE, the Labour MP for Spen Valley, the Bill will allow adults who are terminally ill with six months or… Read more »
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The Labour Party has inflicted two by-election defeats on the government, overturning large majorities to win in Wellingborough and Kingswood. Labour overturned majorities of 11,220 (Kingswood) and 18,540 (Wellingborough), in what amounts to the Conservative Party’s ninth and tenth by-election defeats of the current parliament. Labour candidate Gen Kitchen secured Wellingborough with 45.8 per cent… Read more »
The UK economy entered into a recession at the end of 2023 after contracting by 0.3 per cent in the final three months of the year, according to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The new figures mean the UK has now met the technical definition of a recession, with two quarters of… Read more »
