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The Medical Defence Union (MDU) responded to the GMC workforce report 2024 which found there needs to be more education and training opportunities for locally employed doctors, many of whom qualified from outside the UK. Dr Udvitha Nandasoma, MDU head of advisory services, said: “The GMC’s latest report highlights that the medical workforce is evolving into one… Read more »
Tomorrow, MPs will vote for the first time on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill – the first vote on assisted dying in the Commons in nearly a decade. Introduced by Kim Leadbeater MBE, the Labour MP for Spen Valley, the Bill will allow adults who are terminally ill with six months or… Read more »
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Lord Warner, the health minister with responsibility for NHS delivery, is to retire at the end of the year, Downing Street announced yesterday. The prime minister’s official spokesman said it was a “personal decision” and the peer, who is 66, wanted to spend more time with his family. He denied Lord Warner’s departure was anything… Read more »
MPs have today warned that cuts in staff and training budgets made by NHS trusts struggling to balance their books are “unacceptable” and are damaging patient care. In a highly critical new report, the health select committee also warns that “soft” services such as mental health and public health services are suffering under new savings… Read more »
