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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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Tony Blair has welcomed Sinn Fein’s vote in support of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) as a “historic decision”. Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern also praised last night’s “landmark” decision by the party’s Ard Fheis to end its 86-year opposition to policing in the region. The move clears a major obstacle in the… Read more »
Tony Blair has promised that MI5 will have no role in policing in Northern Ireland, in a bid to reassure republicans wary of new justice arrangements in the province. In a statement to parliament this morning, the prime minister said: “The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and the security service will be completely distinct… Read more »
