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MDU welcomes wide-ranging report by Lord Darzi on how to fix NHS

Responding to the independent report by Lord Darzi into the NHS, Dr Caroline Fryar, MDU director of professional services, said: “We welcome the government’s recognition that healthcare professionals are working in a broken system. Lord Darzi’s report has shone a spotlight on the scale of the challenge the NHS faces. Every day doctors go to work to… Read more »

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Wales Humanists launches report on 100 years of disestablishment
Lords hereditaries removal welcome but bishops should go next

The Government has today brought forward a Bill to remove hereditary peers from the House of Lords. Humanists UK has welcomed this move as long overdue reform. But it has also said that the next step should be to remove the 26 Church of England bishops, known as the Lords Spiritual, who also have an automatic right… Read more »

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Bishops defeat coalition in benefit cap vote

Peers have rejected the government’s plans to prevent benefit claimants receiving more than £26,000 a year, handing the coalition’s welfare reforms another big setback.