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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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Norway, Denmark, and human rights groups challenge UK over abortion deletion

Over 20 human rights, pro-choice, and international aid groups, and the Norwegian and Danish Governments, have called on the UK Government to reverse its decision to arbitrarily strip ‘sexual and reproductive health and rights’ and ‘bodily autonomy’ from an international human rights statement it – and 22 other countries – signed only two weeks ago…. Read more »

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Lib Dem leader Menzies Campbell has unveiled a cash incentive to improve diversity in his party
Lib Dems back diversity drive

The Liberal Democrat conference has today supported tough new action to improve the party’s representation among women and ethnic minorities. Delegates in Brighton voted overwhelmingly to back a motion put by the Lib Dem leadership for extra funds to support ethnic minority and female candidates, and to consider diversity when deciding which seats to target… Read more »

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Menzies Campbell's tax policies could be rejected by his party this week
Campbell dismisses prospect of ‘high noon”‘conference

Menzies Campbell has played down the threat of a potential “high noon” confrontation with activists over tax policies at the Liberal Democrat conference this week. The party leader told reporter Andrew Marr in a BBC interview that “you’ve seen Gary Cooper in high noon too often”. “You want to have crises. You want to have… Read more »