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Lindsay van Dijk has been appointed to head up the chaplaincy and pastoral care team at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which provides person-centred pastoral and spiritual care. As a head of service role, this is the most senior role a humanist pastoral carer has ever held in the NHS. She is also the… Read more »
The Medical Defence Union (MDU), the UK’s first and leading medical defence organisation for doctors, today announced that it has appointed Dr Matthew Lee as its new chief executive. Dr Lee will take over from Dr Christine Tomkins, who is retiring in September after a long career supporting MDU members. Dr Tomkins has been in… Read more »
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The Electoral Commission is expected to criticise the Labour and Conservative parties next week over a “significant” number of donations that were reported late. The watchdog will publish details of donations made last year but which were not disclosed, and is expected to call on parties to clean up their act. A spokeswoman said the… Read more »
The deputy prime minister has denied reports that he described US president George Bush as “crap” during a private meeting with MPs earlier this week. John Prescott said the reported account of his discussions on Tuesday with Muslim MPs were “inaccurate” and stressed that was not his view. However, Labour MP Harry Cohen insisted that… Read more »