Party Politics
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 »
The leading anti-assisted dying group Christian Action, Research and Education (CARE) used Christian reasoning to get its supporters to write to their MPs – but then omitted any Christian language at all from the default email that it got them to send. While recognising that it is essential that all sides are heard in the… Read more »
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By Peter Wozniak Nick Clegg has announced plans for free nursery education for two-year olds as part of his ‘pupil premium’ policy. In a speech in Chesterfield, the deputy prime minister detailed the plans which are designed to invest money to ‘follow’ the poorest children throughout their educational lives. The pupil premium was one of… Read more »
By Ian Dunt Unison’s attempt to challenge Andrew Lansley’s NHS reforms in court hit a brick wall today after its judicial review failed. Unison argued that the failure to properly consult on the reforms breached the partnership agreement between the Department of Health (DoH), the NHS constitution and section 242 of the NHS Act. While… Read more »
