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MDU responds to government report on NHS finances

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 »

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MDU champions members health and wellbeing in Parliament debate

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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Gove is considered gaffe-prone by some commentators for the errors surrounding the project cancellation.
Gove faces the music

By Ian Dunt A delegation of councillors, teachers and pupils has travelled to Westminster to try and prevent Michael Gove from cancelling plans to improve their schools. It is the latest stage of Mr Gove’s trials since he accidentally released an incomplete list of cancelled projects, leading many schools to believe they had been spared… Read more »

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Warsi backs the burkha

By Ian Dunt Baroness Warsi, the only Muslim woman at the top of government, has finally come out in support of women who wear the burkha. Her intervention follows a renewed debate on the covering, sparked by a French decision to ban it and a private member’s bill from Tory MP Philip Hollobone calling on… Read more »