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Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) has issued an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer urging her to take decisive action to tackle the soaring legal costs of clinical negligence claims. In the last year alone, the NHS spent more than £800 million on legal fees relating to clinical negligence… Read more »
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a non-religious father and his child that the exclusively Christian teaching of Religious Education (RE) and collective worship in Northern Ireland are ‘indoctrination’. Alongside mandatory Christian collective worship and a ‘stigmatising’ right of withdrawal, this is therefore discriminatory under human rights law. This ruling will have wide-ranging… Read more »
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The 4th October 2024 marked the latest milestone for an issue that has been rumbling within government for rapidly approaching three years – proposals to implement a system of Fixed Recoverable Costs (FRC) in clinical negligence cases. FRC is a system whereby there would be a set amount of legal costs that can be claimed… Read more »
When he stepped through the door for the first time as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting knew to expect a full in-tray. There are no quick fixes to the issues facing the healthcare system, from waiting lists to the sustainability of social care. Lord Darzi’s subsequent report has laid bare… Read more »
