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The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has appointed Dr Caroline Fryar as professional services director to lead the team guiding, supporting, and defending healthcare professionals with ethical and medico-legal issues. Dr Fryar has worked at the MDU for seventeen years in various roles, most recently as director of medical services. She was previously a GP. Caroline… Read more »
Royal Mail has shelved plans to impose a blanket ban on the carriage of knives which would have unfairly penalised the shooting community and hundreds of small businesses across the country. The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) wrote to Royal Mail’s chief executive pointing out that the ban would severely impact retailers across the… Read more »
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Paymaster general Michael Ellis’ response to Dame Diana Johnson’s urgent question on the blood contamination scandal was labelled by the chair of the home affairs select committee as “wholly inadequate and insulting”. Ellis insisted that delays over interim payments were due to the government’s desire to “get it right”. Shadow cabinet minister Fleur Anderson applied… Read more »
Tobias Ellwood had the Conservative party’s whip withdrawn by the prime minister on Tuesday after he abstained in Monday’s confidence vote in the government. 16 Labour MPs and 12 Conservative MPs did not vote on the matter. ITV News has reported that Tory whips were “relaxed” about vote pairing in this confidence vote. It is… Read more »
