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The Medical Defence Union (MDU) responded to the GMC workforce report 2024 which found there needs to be more education and training opportunities for locally employed doctors, many of whom qualified from outside the UK. Dr Udvitha Nandasoma, MDU head of advisory services, said: “The GMC’s latest report highlights that the medical workforce is evolving into one… Read more »
Tomorrow, MPs will vote for the first time on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill – the first vote on assisted dying in the Commons in nearly a decade. Introduced by Kim Leadbeater MBE, the Labour MP for Spen Valley, the Bill will allow adults who are terminally ill with six months or… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff Ed Miliband will reportedly not be able to visit Afghanistan until February, prompting accusations that Downing Street has ‘vetoed’ the Labour leader’s plans to go to the country before Christmas. The Labour leader, already said to be smarting over being pipped in precedence by Nick Clegg during the wreath-laying at the Remembrance… Read more »
By Peter Wozniak New revelations from the Wikileaks cables show US diplomats’ dismissive attitude towards Gordon Brown’s ‘rudderless’ premiership. Cables from Robert Tuttle, US ambassador to London in the last days of George W. Bush’s presidency, commented on Labour’s prospects after its “terrible” by-election defeat to the SNP in Glasgow in July 2008. He wrote:… Read more »
