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MDU warns Chancellor clinical negligence system ‘not fit for purpose’

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 »

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Northern Ireland RE curriculum is ‘indoctrination’ – Supreme Court

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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Confusion reigns on Syria but the moral lesson is clear

The macho posturing from Donald Trump is troubling, as is the lack of a clear plan for a Syrian intervention, especially with Putin’s Russia involved. But chemical attacks by the Assad regime need an international response.