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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 »
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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The government has insisted negotiations to free five Britons held hostage in Iraq for exactly one year are still ongoing. The families of the hostages are marking the anniversary by launching a joint appeal for their immediate release. All the hostages are civilian contractors who were abducted when armed men stormed the Iraqi ministry of… Read more »
A new campaign warning young people of the dangers of carrying knives has been launched by the government. The warning, being broadcast via radio, the web and mobile phones, comes after a spate of high-profile stabbings across the UK in the last week alone. Budding actor Robert Knox, who had a part in the upcoming… Read more »
