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Clinical negligence liabilities overshadow public finances MDU warns

The Medical Defence Union (MDU) says it is extremely worrying that the amount of money earmarked to cover the total cost of clinical negligence claims (including both including IBNR and PPOs) against the NHS in England has risen to £128.6 billion. This is an increase on the previous year’s figure of £85.2 billion and the… Read more »

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Government refuses to back down over school testing

The government will continue to resist calls from teachers’ unions to moderate its “obsession” with testing, following a statement from the new children and schools secretary Ed Balls that national tests and school league tables will not be scrapped. Critics of the government’s education policy had been hoping for a new approach from Gordon Brown’s… Read more »

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Voters head to polls
Polls open in by-elections

Polls have opened in by-elections in London and County Durham. Voters in Ealing Southall in west London and Sedgefield will today select their new MP. Labour are expected to hold on to Tony Blair’s former seat of Sedgefield but the Liberal Democrats have made strong gains in Ealing Southall. Labour candidate Phil Wilson is widely… Read more »