Constitutional Reform
Responding to today’s announcement that the GMC is seeking views on a revised version of Good medical practice, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) said that it will be scrutinising the significant changes being proposed. The MDU, the UK’s leading medical defence organisation, explained that regulations must be compatible with the realities of doctors’ working lives and… Read more »
BASC, the UK’s largest shooting and conservation organisation, has expelled for life a member convicted of wildlife crime and firearms offences. Expulsion from BASC involves the loss of shooting insurance, on which the ability to shoot may depend, and other benefits of membership. The member from Nottinghamshire pleaded guilty to unlawfully trapping and beating to… Read more »
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The government has launched an inquiry investigating how a memory stick containing access details for a government information website was misplaced. A stick containing usernames and passwords for Gateway, which provides numerous government services such as tax returns and pension information, was found in the car park of a pub and handed to the Mail… Read more »
The parliamentary standards commissioner, John Lyon, has rejected calls to launch an inquiry into shadow chancellor George Osborne. It is the second body which has decided against launching a probe, after the Electoral Commission similarly rejected calls from Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs. “The commissioner has received a complaint about Mr Osborne and has not… Read more »
