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Tax rise payments from over 8 million people needed to fund NHS litigation An influential parliamentary committee has been warned by the Medical Defence Union (MDU) that the Health and Social Care Levy of 1.25% could be swallowed up by the amounts being paid out each year in NHS clinical negligence claims. In evidence to… Read more »
Plans to allow doctors to help terminally ill adults end their lives moved closer to becoming law today, after a new Assisted Dying Bill passed its second reading in the House of Lords. Humanists UK, which campaigns to legalise assisted dying for both the terminally ill and incurably suffering, has praised today’s debate for its… Read more »
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The government’s series of gaffes, U-turns and disasters continued today, when it pulled the plug on the controversial badger cull plan. the move is an embarrassment for environment secretary Owen Paterson and the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), but a victory for shadow environment secretary Mary Creagh and the Badger Trust.
Ministers have shied away from changing the law when it comes to a review of food waste.
