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The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) is urging supporters of sustainable shooting to take immediate action in response to a petition by Wild Justice calling for a ban on grouse shooting. Many newly elected MPs may be unfamiliar with the environmental, social and economic benefits sustainable grouse shooting delivers, leaving them open to… Read more »
The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has called on the government to press ahead with long promised reforms aimed at controlling the costs of clinical negligence cases. In written evidence to the House of Commons public accounts committee into NHS financial sustainability the MDU explains that the government must introduce legal reforms to the current clinical negligence system… Read more »
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The NHS has been neglected by its political parents, an editorial in this week’s Lancet says. The medical journal links Gordon Brown’s planned reforms of the NHS to its wider relationship with the Department of Health, which it accuses of narrow centralisation working against progress. Mr Brown outlined plans to create a “more personal and… Read more »
Assessment practices at the body responsible for deciding which treatments should be used by the NHS have come under attack from MPs. The Commons’ health committee calls for changes to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) in a report published today, saying the threshold deciding whether a treatment is cost-effective is of… Read more »
