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The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has successfully supported a GP member with a series of investigations that followed a patient death. The GP was eventually exonerated, but not before responding to a complaint, claim, NHS England investigation and GMC investigation over a five-year period. The MDU is encouraging healthcare professionals to get support from colleagues… Read more »
Humanists UK is celebrating the ten year anniversary of the first same-sex marriages in England and Wales. Whereas the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act received Royal Assent on 17 July 2013, it took some time to implement this change, so the Act only came into force the following year. The first same-sex marriages took place just after midnight… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff An audit will be conducted into the pay-offs received by council chiefs when they depart their jobs. Local government secretary John Denham is taking a tough line on the matter, after regular tales of bosses leaving due to personality clashes, receiving big pay-offs and then working at another council. “It’s not acceptable… Read more »
David Cameron has claimed the Conservatives’ “spectacular” victory in the local elections shows they are capable of winning seats across the country at a general election. The Conservative leader said the landslide victory, which is arguably the Tories’ best result in regional elections since the most dominant years of the Thatcher regime in the early… Read more »
