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More GPs are contacting the Medical Defence Union (MDU) for advice about disclosing information to online pharmacies when their patients are prescribed weight loss medications. With the popularity of drugs like semaglutide and tirzepatide as weight loss aids, GPs are increasingly being approached by online pharmacies to check if there is anything in a person’s medical… Read more »
Following the publication today of a public accounts committee report into NHS financial sustainability, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) said the NHS should enact long promised reforms aimed at controlling the costs of clinical negligence cases. The MDU was one of the few healthcare organisations to submit written evidence to the committee. Dr Mike Devlin, MDU head of… Read more »
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By Alex Stevenson Transport minister Geoff Hoon became the latest member of the Cabinet to repay allowances today. Mr Hoon “accidentally” overpaid £384 after making a similar error to chancellor Alistair Darling, who agreed to repay around £700 yesterday. He claimed for his TV licence, home insurance and a gas maintenance bill at his Derbyshire… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Alistair Darling is to repay costs he charged to taxpayers on his London flat despite having moved to No 11. The Telegraph’s newspaper’s latest revelation is that the chancellor claimed for a £1,004 service charge claim for the flat he had been living in. Ten days previously, in June 2007, he had… Read more »
