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MDU responds to government report on NHS finances

Following the publication today of a public accounts committee report into NHS financial sustainability, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) said the NHS should enact long promised reforms aimed at controlling the costs of clinical negligence cases. The MDU was one of the few healthcare organisations to submit written evidence to the committee. Dr Mike Devlin, MDU head of… Read more »

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MDU champions members health and wellbeing in Parliament debate

The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has partnered with Members of Parliament to secure a debate in the House of Commons focusing on the health and wellbeing of doctors. Sponsored by Dr Peter Prinsley, MP for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket, the Welfare of Doctors debate called for the government and NHS leaders to take more steps to improve… Read more »

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Starmer accuses Johnson of ‘losing the moral authority to lead’ in final PMQs

Labour’s leader Sir Keir Starmer launched an attack on Boris Johnson over his “weak leadership” in the final Prime Minister’s Questions of 2021. Commenting on a large Conservative rebellion against posing further Christmas restrictions, Starmer said: “Can the prime minister not see that he has no hope of regaining the moral authority to deliver that… Read more »

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PM may have broken law with Christmas quiz, says Starmer

Leader of the Labour party, Sir Keir Starmer, has said Boris Johnson might have broken the law by taking part in a Christmas quiz in Downing Street last December.  In a picture obtained by The Sunday Mirror, the prime minister is seen quizzing and sat between two colleagues in No. 10 Downing Street, at a time… Read more »