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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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The government is investing in new hospitals, not closing them, the health secretary Patricia Hewitt insisted today. She was speaking as the Department of Health launched a map of new NHS facilities across England. For the first time it reveals the extent of investment in NHS infrastructure, with 116 new hospitals and 188 primary care… Read more »
The government should write off NHS trust deficits to ensure health service reforms succeed in 2007 – a “make or break” year, a new report has said. Research by right-wing think tank Reform argues that despite increased investment, the failure to push ahead with modernisation and tackle rising costs means the long-term strength of the… Read more »
