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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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A ballot for strike action by the Public and Commercial Services Union which represents UK civil servants, has resulted in the union’s members voting to take industrial action. The result of the ballot is now set to impact on the delivery of a range of public services from the workings of driving test centres, job… Read more »
The Consumer Price Index has risen to 10.1% in the 12 months to September 2022, returning to the July level, after a small drop to 9.9% in August. Prices are now rising at their fastest rate since the early 1980s. This month’s increase in inflation is being driven by a continuing rise in food and… Read more »
