Crime Levels
A review of nurse practitioner cases notified to leading medical defence organisation, the Medical Defence Union (MDU), has found nurses now face a similar range of medico-legal investigations into incidents as doctors. Between 2017 and 2021, the MDU helped 400 nurse members with medico-legal processes including complaints, claims, disciplinary procedures and NMC investigations. The MDU… Read more »
A survey of 67,000 doctors in training which shows worrying levels of burnout and exhaustion among the medical profession should concern us all, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) said today. The GMC’s annual National Training Survey found that the risk of burnout among medical trainees is now at its worst since it was first tracked in 2018…. Read more »
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The Conservatives have said the position of two Home Office ministers would be “untenable” if reports that they knew Britons convicted abroad were not being tracked were true. It was revealed last night that Home Office minister Tony McNulty and junior minister Joan Ryan knew that files of 27,000 offenders had not been properly entered… Read more »
Tony Blair last night finally broke his silence on the execution of Saddam Hussein, saying the way the former Iraqi leader was killed was “completely wrong”. The prime minister has come under fire for failing to make a statement on the death of the dictator toppled by British and American forces in March 2003, particularly… Read more »
