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The UK Government must carry out long overdue reform of the teaching of Religious Education (RE) in England to meet the needs of modern society, says Humanists UK in response to another Ofsted review. In its deep-dive report into RE – Deep and meaningful? – Ofsted found that the current curriculum often lacks ‘sufficient substance to… Read more »
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 »
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A total of 900 NHS staff have lost their jobs in the last five months because of financial problems and reorganisations in healthcare trusts, new figures show. Ministers said just 167 of the 903 compulsory redundancies since May were among clinical staff, and although they were “regrettable”, said they represented only a tiny fraction of… Read more »
The Conservatives have accused ministers of wasting £45 billion on NHS hospital building contracts by pressing ahead with unpopular private finance initiative deals (PFI). Figures collated by the party suggest NHS trusts will have to pay private firms £53 billion for hospitals over the next 30 years, although their total value is only £8 billion…. Read more »
